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Shift: Conversations on Changing Canadian Health Care
Welcome to Shift! A podcast dedicated to exploring ideas, projects, practices, and policies that are reshaping the future of health care in Canada. Each episode delves into the dynamic world of health care innovation, featuring insightful discussions with leaders, thinkers, policymakers, researchers, and direct care practitioners who are driving change and finding solutions to enhance health and health care.
My mission is to illuminate the challenges and celebrate the ideas that are changing Canadian health care. From ground-breaking technologies and policy reform to grassroots initiatives and patient-centric approaches, we aim to uncover the stories behind the progress. Join me as we navigate the complexities of health care transformation, inspire meaningful conversations, and foster a community committed to improving health outcomes for all Canadians.
Whether you're a health care professional, policymaker, or simply curious about the future of health care, Shift provides the insights and inspiration change makers need to stay informed and engaged.
Shift: Conversations on Changing Canadian Health Care
Latest Episodes
Reimagining Home Care - The Buurtzorg Way
What happens when you stop managing nurses and start trusting them? In this episode, Kyla sits down with Jos de Blok — the Dutch nurse-turned-founder of Buurtzorg, the neighbourhood care organization that rebuilt home nursing in the Netherlands...
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Season 2 Premiere: The Race to Save Medicare from Privatization
To open this new season, Kyla sits down with retired registered nurse and author Cathy MacNeil to talk about her book Dying to Be Seen: The Race to Save Medicare in Canada. Over fifty years in the system — bedside nursing, ICU, hospita...
The Centre Cannot Hold Summer Series Finale: Funding the Crisis, Starving the Solutions
This is the episode where all five flaws converge. When you don't plan your workforce, don't budget for results, follow rules instead of outcomes, and never track data — you end up funding the emergency and starving the prevention, year aft...
The Centre Cannot Hold Summer Series: Little data, less analysis, no follow-up
This episode is about what happens when governments collect data but never act on it, measures inputs but never outcomes, and substitutes the phrase "we are committed to continuous improvement" for an actual plan.
The Centre Cannot Hold Summer Series: The Operation Was a Success but the Patient Died
A domestic violence survivor loses her benefits if she stays with her parents for a tenth month. A person with a disability turns down a job offer because taking it means losing housing support. A senior is denied a taxi voucher to a clinic and...