Lead Consultant:
Tim
Lynch
Publications:
Executive
Summary
BC 2003 Forest Fires: A Test of Quality Management in Health Services
Delivery
January 30, 2004
Prepared
forThe Ministry of Health Planning Victoria, BC & The Interior
Health Authority Kelowna, BC
(PDF file size 125Kb)
Full
Report
BC 2003 Forest Fires: A Test of Quality Management in Health Services
Delivery
Released
May 12, 2004
Visit the Interior Health
Authority web site.
EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT OF SARS:
A QUANTUM LEAP OR A PARADIGM SHIFT?
Risk Management in Canadian Health Care
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 6
DECEMBER 2003
(PDF
file size 469Kb)
SARS
in Toronto - Acting locally, reacting globally
Submitted
on April 11th 2003 to International Travel Insurance
Journal
The
Romanow Commission: An Opportunity Lost
Hospital
Quarterly Journal Spring 2003
(PDF
file size 120Kb)
Background Information
Vaccination
Programs in Canada:
Summary of a study conducted by Info-Lynk
Consulting in October 1989
Health
insurance - don't leave home without it
ITIJ Journal Spring 2002
Primary
Care Reform in Ontario: The Emperor Has No Clothes
www.hospitalquarterly.com
Medicare
in a modern world
The Vancouver Sun, March 14 2002
American
/ Canadian relations, post September 11th: accommodation or surrender?
ITIJ
Journal
Nov/Dec 2001
Choice
in health care
The Globe & Mail
Nov. 12 2001
London,
UK Travel Insurance Conference Regulations of Canadian Travel
Industry
May 2001
Vancouver
Hosts Insurance Summit, Report on meeting of the International
Insurance Society 2000 seminar, Vancouver B.C.,
DEBATING
THE DATA: Is there an entrepreneurial option to primary-care reform?
Medical Post
-May 4, 1999-
HEALTH
CARE DELIVERY: Rewarding excellence is the solution
Medical Post
-February 9, 1999-
A
Book Review: The Billion Dollar Molecule,
Toronto Biotechnology Initiative, (TBI)
Bioscan, June 1998 |
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Services
Health Care
"The Romanow Commission:
An Opportunity Lost"
It is assumed
that you have arrived at this site as a consequence of reading my article
"The Romanow Commission: An Opportunity Lost" Hospital
Quarterly Journal Spring 2003
By
way of explanation:
When I heard the
Prime Minister, Jean Chretien announce that his good friend Roy
Romanow, was to be a one-man Commission on the future of Canada's
health system I immediately saw a "White Elephant."
A retired New Democratic
Party Premier from the province of Saskatchewan just didn't come across
as having the "moxie" necessary for organizing medicare
in a modern world.
On the last day
for making a submission to the Commission I received a Spam Email asking
for comments with respect to the four main themes of the Commission.
I could not resist the challenge. Within two hours I had completed a
letter to Mr. Romanow discussing his four themes.
A day or so before
Mr. Romanow arrived in Vancouver to begin his cross-country tour I received
a telephone call asking me to present at the Commission hearings. I
doubt Mr. Romanow would remember my presentation. In comparison with
the theatrics displayed just ahead of me by Michael Walker of
the Fraser Institute and Alexa McDonough of the
New Democratic Party (NDP) my
presentation must have come across as being boringly technocratic.
Certainly there
was no interest in discussing my concluding quote of Lloyd J. Detwiller,
one of B.C.Ős healthcare architects in early 1970s who said, "Health
care delivery and finance programs cannot be optimized if they become
the battleground for irreconcilable ideologies."
When I heard Mr.
Romanow, just before the release of his document, make his "battle
cry" that there is "no evidence" of for-profit health
care being better than not-for-profit health care, I knew he had been
influenced by
Canadian Academic Health Interests that has monopolized all health
care thought in Canada over the past thirty years. Given the sustainability
of this powerful influence relative to the transient nature of political
office, it is these interests that are largely responsible for the limitations
of Canada's health services today.
After Mr. Romanow
brought his tablet down from his Saskatchewan Mountain I was repeatedly
being asked to express some opinion on his effort. I always began by
saying "I am disappointed -- "It was this sense of disappointment
that caused me to write the article that appeared in the Hospital Quarterly
Journal of Spring 2003.
Tim Lynch
Email: tim@infolynk.ca