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A Hard Look at Ontario's Health System: Yearly Report 

Our 11th yearly report on the health of Ontarians and how the health system is performing – shows that people in the province are living longer and are losing fewer years of their lives to premature mortality.

However, Measuring Up 2017 also shows Ontario's health system is struggling with significant challenges, such as people having to wait too long for some care, not getting the care they need as they transition between parts of the system, or not having equitable access to care.

New Quality Standards are Available

Quality standards outline for clinicians and patients what quality care looks like. Two new quality standards are now available:

• Heavy Menstrual Bleeding: Care for Adults and Adolescents of Reproductive Age
• Hip Fracture: Care for People with Fragility Fractures  

And recommendations to help health care professionals and organizations adopt existing quality standards for behavioural symptoms of dementia, schizophrenia and major depression were added to these existing guides.

Draft Quality Standard for Schizophrenia Care in the Community

We are seeking feedback on draft guides for patients and clinicians outlining what quality care looks like for people who have schizophrenia and are living in the community.

Your feedback is important in helping us create a helpful product. The last day to give us your input is November 2, 2017.

MyPractice: My Primary Care 

In this guest blog, Dr. David Kaplan, family physician and primary care lead for Health Quality Ontario discusses the MyPractice: Primary Care initiative. Giving family physicians a confidential informative perspective of their individual practice that is aimed at helping them with pain management.

Learn too what other partners are doing to support family physicians. 

Change Day Ontario: Pledge Today! 

Make a pledge to improve compassionate quality care - Change Day Ontario is about inspiring caregivers, patients and providers to act on the changes they want to see. 

See pledges people have made, and watch the ‘pledge for change’ video.

Then join us on Twitter (@HealthQualityOntario) November 17 as we celebrate our collective actions across the province.  The difference is you!

Looking for Feedback: Continuous Glucose Monitoring for Type 1 Diabetes

Continuous glucose monitoring involves the insertion of a small sensor under the skin to measure a person's blood glucose levels every few minutes. In our newest Health Technology Assessment, we studied the effectiveness and impact of continuous glucose monitoring for those with type 1 diabetes. Read the draft recommendation and share your feedback by November 1, 2017.

Online Data Refreshes in Primary Care and Patient Safety

Updated publicly reported data for patient safety is now available on our website. See how hospitals perform on indicators such as hand washing and rates of infection acquired while staying in hospital.

Also available, new data related to primary care such as how many patients in Ontario have access to a family doctor or other primary care provider.

Health Literacy Month: New Resources to Support Patients and Providers

We recently added a health literacy section to our online hub of Patient Engagement Tools and Resources - to help patients and health care providers understand, effectively communicate health information and effectively engage in the patient's care plan.