Media

Health Quality Council media contacts

Are you a member of the media looking to get in touch with the Saskatchewan Health Quality Council?

For more information or to arrange interviews, please contact:

Lesley Porter

Senior Consultant, Marketing and Communications

E: media@hqc.sk.ca

P: 1-639-638-0566

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The Health Quality Council (HQC) is an independent organization that accelerates improvement in the quality of health and health care in Saskatchewan. Since 2002, we have worked with patients and families, clinicians, administrators, researchers, students, and quality improvement specialists to help make change happen faster for better health and health care.

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Health Quality Council quick stats and facts

  • In 2021-22, the Health Quality Council provided support to health system partners in the Saskatchewan Health Authority and eHealth Saskatchewan with vaccination and proof-of-vaccination activities. In the year prior, HQC staff contributed approximately 3,000 hours of resourcing to support the SHA in COVID response initiatives in functions such as administration, project management, communications, research, evidence, facilitation, QI, training, and information delivery.
  • In 2021-22, the Health Quality Council produced evidence to support improvement in health care through nine published research papers across a variety of topics.
  • In 2021-22, the Health Quality Council began work on a hotspotting project to identify hot spots of drug toxicity overdoses and deaths. This work is done as part of the provincial Drug Task Force.
  • In 2021-22, the Health Quality Council completed training its first cohort of Community QI Collective participants. The inaugural group was comprised of seven organizations from across Saskatchewan.

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HQC news stories and media releases

Please visit our news page for a list of news updates and media releases.