Resilient Healthcare Coalition’s Pre-Budget Wish List
The Resilient Healthcare Coalition (RHC) is a collaborative of like-minded health system partners providing leadership, insights, and support required to bring health system resilience to the forefront of Canadian health and innovation policy in order to create a better Canadian healthcare system in a postpandemic world.
The concept of health system resilience is neither a new one, nor an exclusively Canadian one. In fact, COVID-19 has supercharged a global policy discussion centred around how best to make healthcare systems more shock-proof and less fragile. In light of this discussion – and against the backdrop of today’s federal budget – the RHC believes that resilient healthcare systems can best be created through partnerships, solutions and interventions that (1) drive improved patient outcomes by better providing and coordinating resources, information and technology; (2) improve health system performance by identifying and profiling examples of innovation and ingenuity; and (3) support the idea that spending on healthcare is an investment to be maximized, not a cost to be contained.
Building more resilient healthcare systems across Canada won’t be a simple, easy or speedy task. However, finding the partnerships, solutions and interventions now that are required to shift from fragility to resilience will deliver enormous benefits to Canadians in the future.
Listen to the Resilient Healthcare Podcast Episode 1: Building More Resilient Healthcare Systems Across Canada” on SoundCloud.