title: Accelerating excellence report: Releasing time to care.
abstract: Saskatchewan's Health Quality Council (HQC) was launched in 2003 with a mandate to not only measure and report on healthcare but also work with a range of partners to improve the province's health system. In late 2007, HQC's board decided it was time for Saskatchewan to reinvent its healthcare system, using the highest-performing systems in the world as its model. And in 2008, HQC launched Accelerating Excellence, a multi-level program to rethink, redesign and renew healthcare. To help maintain momentum and show other provinces whether high-performing healthcare can be achieved in Canada, HQC is documenting its journey toward high-performing healthcare. This second article in this series discusses the Releasing Time to Care program.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Coutts
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012525:Saskatchewan