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Welcome to Shift! A podcast dedicated to exploring ideas, projects, practices, and policies that are reshaping the future of health care in Canada. Each episode delves into the dynamic world of health care innovation, featuring insightful discussions with leaders, thinkers, policymakers, researchers, and direct care practitioners who are driving change and finding solutions to enhance health and health care. My mission is to illuminate the challenges and celebrate the ideas that are changing Canadian health care. From ground-breaking technologies and policy reform to grassroots initiatives and patient-centric approaches, we aim to uncover the stories behind the progress. Join me as we navigate the complexities of health care transformation, inspire meaningful conversations, and foster a community committed to improving health outcomes for all Canadians. Whether you're a health care professional, policymaker, or simply curious about the futur
KDA Consulting hosts Shift: Conversations on Changing Canadian Health Care, a health show with 22 episodes published.
This is the episode where all five flaws converge. When you don't plan your workforce, don't budget for results, follow rules instead of outcomes, and never track data — you end up funding the emergency and starving the
A domestic violence survivor loses her benefits if she stays with her parents for a tenth month. A person with a disability turns down a job offer because taking it means losing housing support. A senior is denied a taxi
Every year, government sets a budget for social programs. But almost nobody asks what those numbers are supposed to produce — or checks whether they did. This episode follows Lamrock's team as they ask the Department of
In the 1990s, as a response decades of overspending, governments facing fiscal pressure made a deliberate choice: cap enrolments in health professions, reduce training spaces, limit billing numbers. The long wait times t
This is the episode that sets the stage. In 2024, Kelly Lamrock — New Brunswick's Child, Youth and Seniors' Advocate — released a report that asks a question most of us have been afraid to ask: what if the problem isn't
In this episode, Kyla sits down with Dr. Brittany Ellis — an emergency physician with specialized training in geriatric emergency medicine — for a wide-ranging conversation about why Canada's emergency departments are in
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we sit down with Angela Sereda, a senior leader in Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) with Medavie West, to discuss the shift happening in paramedicine. Angela shares her 33-year journey fro
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we explore an unlikely but powerful partnership between Terry Kostyna , a "get-shit-done" (GSD) entrepreneur and small-town mayor, and Dr. Jacob Al Hassan , an academic researcher focuse
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I sit down with John Mortimer, a specialist in systemic service design and founder of Impro, to tackle a concept that is silently draining the resources and morale of our health care sys
Send us Fan Mail Recorded just twenty-four hours before Prairie Harm Reduction (PHR)—formerly known as AIDS Saskatoon—officially closed its doors on April 9, 2026, this episode features a deep dive conversation with soci
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I sit down with two of Saskatchewan’s most experienced health care leaders, Dan Florizone and Marlene Smadu, to explore a fundamental crisis in leadership: why we continue to treat an in
Send us Fan Mail In this special episode, Kyla pauses her interviews to reflect on the key themes and insights from the first three months of the podcast. Kyla shares what she's gleaned from conversations with Dennis, An
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I sit down with Steven Lewis , a veteran health policy consultant and former CEO of Saskatchewan’s Health Services Utilization and Research Commission (HSURC). With decades of experience
In this episode, I sit down with Steven Lewis , a veteran health policy consultant and former CEO of Saskatchewan’s Health Services Utilization and Research Commission (HSURC). With decades of experience at the intersect
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Kyla sits down with Teri Price , the Executive Director of Greg’s Wings Projects, to discuss her journey from disaster management to becoming a leading change agent in the Canadian healt
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Kyla offers a critique of Saskatchewan's newly released "Patient's First Healthcare Plan" and questions why health care systems insist on repeating the same failed approached decade afte
Send us Fan Mail In this episode Dr. Katherine Stevenson reflects on 25 years of quality improvement in Saskatchewan — tracing the shift from measurement and reporting toward collaboratives, the Accelerating Excellence s
Send us Fan Mail Futurist Andy Wilkins discusses rethinking health as a complex, nested system — from cells to cities — and why current siloed, “repair-shop” healthcare models won’t scale for ageing, multi‑morbidity popu
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Kyla sits down with Dennis Vergne, a systems improvement consultant based in London, to explore the concept of Relational Service Design and why it’s critical for transforming public ser
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Steven Lewis
former CEO · Saskatchewan’s Health Services Utilization and Research Commission
2 appearances on this show
Kelly Lamrock
New Brunswick's Child, Youth and Seniors' Advocate
1 appearance on this show
Angela Sereda
Medavie West
1 appearance on this show
John Mortimer
Impro
1 appearance on this show
Dan Florizone
Saskatchewan health care
1 appearance on this show
Teri Price
Greg’s Wings Projects
1 appearance on this show
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