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Alan R Hudson

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PubMed2006

What pay for what performance?

The paper by Pink et al. is extraordinarily timely and useful for those managing the Ontario Wait Time Strategy. Pay-for-performance (PFP) has been a central tenet of this successful, publicly financed initiative, introduced 18 months ago. Governments around the world focus on wait time reduction, and this measurement is fashionably utilized as a popular indicator of how well a healthcare system is performing. Because wait time reduction is so high on the political agenda, governments are prepared to spend public money raising the question of how that money can be best spent to achieve that goal.

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PubMed2006

Ontario wait time strategy.

Increase focus has been given to surgical wait times for oncology. The Ontario government has initiated a system to track and measure wait times for cancers including urological tumors. This strategy was initiated 1.5 years ago and has accomplished a great deal in its infancy. Along with an information technology strategy, targeted funding has successfully increased the numbers of cases done in the province. In time, outcome data will be required. Approaches such as these have occurred throughout Canada and are encouraged in order to improve access to the public health care system.

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