Health committee  They have been able to create capacity across all the settings. They look at the home as a setting of care. They look at housing as a setting of care. They look at all the different options where they have patients, and they work very hard on making sure the patient is in the rig

Health committee  They've been able to demonstrate that you can have a complete system and do it on essentially 100% public funding, so there is evidence that you can actually make it work in a heavily public funded system. In Canada, 30% of our spending is private, and that is growing as the pub

Health committee  The majority of the national agenda is on quality and safety, so it's identifying a number of patient safety or quality issues that nationally they want to work on. The safety of medication for the elderly is very large. Care of the elderly is a very large national agenda. They'r

Health committee  You could look at another country that has the same kind of constitution as Canada—Australia. In the first place, in the Australia Constitution Act of 1901, they established the role of the federal and the state governments. They have the same distribution of powers, but they hav

Health committee  No, there isn't anything stopping them.

Health committee  I don't have it here, but we could probably get it from CIHI, the Canadian Institute of Health Information, and let you know what it is.

Health committee  Well, it depends on the type of hospital. Academic health science centres are quite expensive. A normal community hospital would be in the range of maybe $1,200 a day. As for teaching hospitals, Dr. Tétreault would know. St. Boniface would be—

Health committee  I don't have that. The only thing I can tell you is that we look at two measures related to performance. We look at percentage of GDP investment. We're at around 11.5% or 11.6% right now. They're sitting at below 10%, and it had been around 9% for probably 10 to 15 years. At one

Health committee  I should say that I'm not a physician.

Health committee  In Sweden, they don't have a federation like Canada or Australia. But they have a complex system. They have 20 councils, and their role is to look after hospital care, physician care, academic health science centres, and pharmacare. All those things are under one council that has

Health committee  Madam Chair and members of the Standing Committee on Health, it is a real honour to appear before you as a witness. The remarks I will be sharing with you this morning are really my own personal insights from working as a leader for over 30 years in health care administration, an