Commentary highlights barriers to healthcare improvement in Canada, suggesting renewed focus on past recommendations.
Ten years ago, the Advisory Panel on Healthcare Innovation, chaired by C. David Naylor, gave its prescription to strengthen Canada's healthcare systems. Unfortunately, the report fell victim to politics and shifting government priorities. This commentary argues that key barriers to healthcare improvement in Canada - particularly siloed structures that prevent collaboration, a lack of political will to challenge the status quo and a myopic federalism paradigm - continue to bedevil Canada's health systems, and that the recommendations of the Naylor panel, particularly the proposed healthcare innovation fund and federal healthcare innovation agency, are as relevant today as they were in 2015.
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