title: Transforming cancer services in Ontario: a work in progress.
abstract: Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the largest provincial cancer agency in Canada, with a long and rich history as a specialized service entity within a generic delivery system in Ontario. CCO's evolution has been well characterized by Hayter (1998), and described by us previously (Sullivan et al. 2003, 2004). Once criticized as a very inward-looking body with a mixed record in solving a series of radiation waiting-time crises, CCO has reinvented itself over the past three years in ways that are very similar to the transformation of the Veterans Health Administration.
authors.affiliation: Cancer Care Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Terrence
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sullivan
authors.forename: Leslee
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Angus
mesh_terms: D002173:Cancer Care Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006752:Hospital Planning; D007256:Information Systems; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009864:Ontario; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010934:Planning Techniques; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012941:Social Responsibility; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014481:United States; D014493:United States Department of Veterans Affairs; D014850:Waiting Lists