Finance committee  Yes, exactly, and you would be surprised at how simple some of these things are. We were chatting before the meeting about how simple changes can make a big difference. The challenge is that they are shared and that they are taken up. For example, I talked about the approaches

Finance committee  Yes, they are a partner inasmuch as it is teams within their provinces who are working on these innovations and working to share them; hence it's the labour of the people in these institutions who are making the changes. In that way the provinces are indeed assisting greatly. Whe

Finance committee  Yes, certainly. It's a small organization of 40 professional staff and a board of nine people that includes a couple of deputy ministers, one from Alberta and one from the Northwest Territories, the associate deputy from British Columbia, and the former head of the Ontario Hospit

Finance committee  I don't have the answer to that question on pharmaceuticals. I think Dr. Klasa is working hard on lobbying to have that happen.

Finance committee  No. In fact, what we're doing is actually not research but really working with people on the front lines and helping to bring evidence of what does make a difference to them, but more importantly, bridging the divides across provinces. Canada has both a great strength and a gre

Finance committee  Exactly, it's very important. For example, in the Atlantic all four provinces agreed that they would work together to look at ways of improving the care for people with chronic conditions, COPD, diabetes, mental health, etc. Ten regional health authorities are working together.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and good afternoon. I'm Maureen O'Neil, president of the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement, CFHI. Thank you for this invitation to appear before the committee. CFHI is a federally funded not-for-profit organization dedicated to accelera

Finance committee  No.