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Healthcarepapers New Models for the New Healthcare Vol. 8 • Special Issue • 2007 HealthcarePapers New Models for the New Healthcare Strategic Levers for a High-Performing Health System Commentary from Gwyn Bevan, Adalsteinn D. Brown, Reinhard Busse, Anthony J. Culyer, Raisa Deber, Josep Figueras, Richard H. Glazier, Ida Goodreau, Elke Jakubowski, Louise Lemieux-Charles, David Levine, Steven Lewis, Gerry McSorley, Joe Murphy, Richard Prial, Ray Robinson, Jeremy Veillard, A. Paul Williams PM 40069375 www.healthcarepapers.com HealthcarePapers New Models for the New Healthcare • Vol. 8 Special Issue • 2007 IN THIS ISSUE INTRODUCTION 6 Strategic Levers for a High-Performing Health System Louise Lemieux-Charles EQUITY 12 Equity of What in Healthcare? Why the Traditional Answers Don’t Help Policy – and What to Do in the Future Anthony J. Culyer 27 Cost Control, Equity and Efficiency: Can We Have It All? Gwyn Bevan 35 Balancing Equity Issues in Health Systems: Perspectives of Primary Healthcare Richard H. Glazier 46 The Reform of Health and Social Services in Quebec David Levine 55 Balancing Equity Issues in Health Systems: The Example of Vancouver Coastal Health Ida Goodreau STRATEGIC PURCHASING 62 Strategic Purchasing to Improve Health System Performance: Key Issues and International Trends Reinhard Busse, Josep Figueras, Ray Robinson, Elke Jakubowski 77 Strategic Purchasing: The Experience in England Gerry McSorley 93 Strategic Purchasing in Home and Community Care across Canada: Coming to Grips with “What” to Purchase A. Paul Williams 104 Strategic Outsourcing by a Regional Health Authority: The Experience of the Vancouver Island Health Authority Joe Murphy 1 HealthcarePapers Vol. 8 Special Issue ALL THINGS CONSIDERED 114 Thoughts on the Day: Strategic Purchasing and Equity Raisa Deber and Steven Lewis 124 The Next Step on the Road to High Efficiency: Finding Common Ground between Equity and Performance Adalsteinn D. Brown, Jeremy Veillard, Richard Prial About the cover: Photo collage of DaVinci sketches. 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Printed by Harmony Printing © September 2007 4 INTRODUCTION HealthcarePapers 5 Strategic Levers for a High-Performing Health System Louise Lemieux-Charles, PhD Chair and Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto Origin of this Collection • Provision or change of funding to health Over the past four years the Ontario Ministry service providers of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) • Facilitating and negotiating health serv- has been engaged in transforming the prov- ices integration ince’s health system, a process that includes • Issuing integration decisions decentralizing decisions pertaining to the delivery of services. This decentralization is Ontario’s LHINs have embarked on their occurring through the devolution of decision- strategic planning journeys; however, the making to the newly created Local Health extent to which decisions will be decentralized Integration Networks (LHINs). The LHINs’ is still under discussion. mandate is described in the Local Health Acknowledging the need to explore System Integration Act (Government of challenges arising from such a fundamental Ontario 2006) and includes the following key transformation, MOHLTC policy-makers, elements: members of the University of Toronto’s 6 Strategic Levers for a High-Performing Health System Department of Health Policy, Management cal allocation of healthcare resources ought and Evaluation (HPME) and senior-level to be allocated in proportion to the popula- health system decision-makers developed tion’s need in each area; access/utilization of a conference program that would showcase healthcare ought to be equal for all members national and international experiences in of society; and equity and efficiency in health decentralizing decision-making as it pertains and healthcare usually conflict and, when they to equity and strategic purchasing, two areas do, equity trumps efficiency. Culyer argues that that are especially challenging from a policy perspective. The symposium that resulted – Strategic Levers for a High-Performing Health System – was held in Toronto on … showcase national and 1 November 20 and 21, 2006. It afforded a international experiences in wide-ranging opportunity for the airing of many perspectives on these topics, includ- decentralizing decision-making ing the views and experiences of practitioners as it pertains to equity and from various Canadian and international juris- strategic purchasing, two areas dictions who have encountered challenges in providing an equitable approach to healthcare that are especially challenging while seeking efficiencies in care delivery. from a policy perspective. This special issue of Healthcare Papers brings together most of the Strategic Levers symposium proceedings. We believe that the these propositions are impractical because it is concepts, approaches and solutions explored unclear what policy steps follow for those who and analyzed in this collection will serve as wish to embody them. He presents an alterna- valuable references and models for people tive set of principles for equity in health and
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