England has had a disproportionate impact on health care reform in Ontario over the last decade or so --under both Liberal and Progressive Conservative governments. After the election of a Conservative-Liberal Democrat government in Britain in 2010, English health policy took a decided turn towards bonzo-privatization. (As elsewhere, this was done on a "need to know" basis: the electorate were only informed about the policy after the election.) So it was with a worried eye that I looked at the latest report on these reforms and what they might mean for Ontario from Ontario's (very establishment-oriented) health care think tank, "The Change Foundation". The good news is that The Change Foundation shows rather tepid interest in the latest English reforms. Here, for example, are their two take away lessons from the English reforms: Quality improvement in primary care must be integrated with a performance measurement framework which is
Notes from Leftwords -- Doug Allan