Ontario’s publicly funded healthcare system costs billions of dollars to operate and touches millions of lives every year. Dedicated staff and professionals work long and hard to routinely deliver care that was unimaginable a generation ago and difficult a decade ago.

The Ontario Health Quality Council’s job is to report to the public on the quality of health care in the province and support its improvement. We salute the good work that’s done, we encourage others to learn from it and change for the better and we promote quality improvement at every level of care. But it’s also our job to highlight areas that need to be improved.

We began our work by looking at what Ontarians want from their healthcare system. We asked and found the people of Ontario share a common vision; we all want a system that is accessible, effective, safe, patient-centred, equitable, efficient, integrated, focused on population health and has the appropriate resources to get its work done. We call these the nine attributes of a high-performing health system. Every year we look at indicators — aspects of health care we can measure and keep track of — for these nine attributes and publish a report on them. Our yearly reports also hone in on areas that need improvement.

For more information, see the 2010 Yearly Report section.

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