Listening for Direction: A national consultation on health services and policy issues
From January to March 2001, five national organizations undertook a consultation to identify research themes for future applied health services and policy research, called Listening for Direction: A national consultation on health services and policy issues. The main objective of this consultation was to help design research themes that respond to the needs of policy makers and managers in the health system over the next two to five years.
Listening for Direction II: A national consultation on health services and policy issues
Listening for Direction II was launched in November 2003 and includes six partner organizations: the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (within the Canadian Institutes of Health Research), the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment, the Advisory Committee on Governance and Accountability of the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Conference of Deputy Ministers of Health, and the Health Statistics Division of Statistics Canada.
Listening for Direction III: A National Consultation on Health Service and Policy Issues
In 2007, eight national organizations partnered for the third round of Listening for Direction:
- CHSRF and CIHR-IHSPR, who were the co-strategic leads
- Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)
- Canadian Healthcare Association (CHA)
- Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
- Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI)
- Health Canada
- Statistics Canada.
With additional financial support from Health Canada, the consultations were extended for the first time to include the northern territories - the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
For the 2007 Listening for Direction process, the partners determined that the objectives were to identify short-term (one to two years) and longer-term (three to 10 years) health system priorities.
Preliminary results of the consultation - a list of the themes and their descriptions - are now available. An overview of the process will be available in the final report.
