Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Eric Hoskins

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Shannon Sibbald

Document Summary

Have a very important role in public policy. Ministers are not often experts (eric hoskins minister of health is a doc, the exception to this) so bureaucrats are meant to be experts in certain fields, in there for the long hauls, even throughout elections. The difference between what you planned to have happen and what actually happened. For the past 50 years (not so much recently) but stake holder engagement was very low in policy and a lot of decision making, even patient encounter. With this new shift towards more stakeholder engagement, more broader awareness and engagement (especially form the patient population), the implementation gap became more clear (because this is what people are experiencing) So a policy that was meant to increase access, beautifully define, policy put in place, implemented then failure. Because what the patients define as access may not be what the politicians define as access. know what the outcome of what patients want is)