Building on the common ground : Report from the Saskatchewan HHR Consultation Conference

This report specifically deals with the reactions to and the input from the conference participants as they related to both the Saskatchewan government’s ongoing work on HHR planning (including, for example, the current recruitment and retention initiatives launched in the province in early 2007) as well as the federal-provincial-territorial commitments made in the most recent iteration of the Pan [...] Ultimately, the goal for all concerned with the future of HHR planning in the country is that there be real and concrete linkages between the issues/concerns expressed by those who actually deliver health services; the issues/concerns of those who organize the delivery of services at the regional authority and at the provincial level; and the issues/concerns brought forward to the intergovernmenta [...] In this latter part of the event, participants were given the opportunity to self-select the issues they wanted to discuss based on the material provided to them before the conference and as a result of the presentations made to them on the first day. [...] Finally, the conference also had a formal rapporteur who was charged with summarizing the conversations held during the conference and drawing out the linkages between the different issues and how they related to the different levels of HHR planning – the local, the provincial and the pan-Canadian. [...] One has to interpret the results of the deliberations as conclusions reached by the participants and not to presume that they represent the voice of all the health system stakeholders in the province.