Qreview, HQC's new blog goes live: First up this week? A post from our board chair, Dr. Susan Shaw, about a new habit she's adopted, inspired by the panel discussion on patient engagement at this year's Quality Summit. Another Summit-flavored item, this one about balancing humility and impatience in our drive to make health care better. And a good news story about depression care, from Prairie North. (May 15, 2012)

Prairie North working to improve care for people living with depression: Although the province's second Chronic Disease Management Collaborative (CDMC II) officially ended in March 2011, improvements to depression care continue to gain momentum in Prairie North Health Region. (May 10, 2012)

Saskatchewan Releasing Time to Care (TM) unit featured in international publication: An article about the Adult Inpatient Mental Health Unit in Regina General Hospital is featured on page six of the international edition of the British NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement newsletter, The Productive Times. (May 1, 2012)

Photos from Quality Summit 2012 on HQC Facebook page: More than 700 people participated in this year's Quality Summit, which took place April 17th and 18th in Saskatoon. Photographer David Stobbe did a great job capturing all of the action. Note that you do NOT need a Facebook account to view these photos. (May 1, 2012)

PowerPoint presentations and other resources from 2012 Quality Summit presenters now available: At this link you'll also find news coverage of the event. To read participant and presenter comments posted about the Summit, go to Twitter and search for #qualitysummit. (April 23, 2012)

Beth Adashynski, Executive Director of Quality and Privacy, and others from Cypress Health Region tell us why they wanted their quality of care indicators on Quality Insight: In the second episode of the Quality Insight video blog, you'll hear what inspired them to make their visibility wall available on Quality Insight and you'll see some of the collaborative work between the region and the Health Quality Council that made it a reality. If you missed the first episode in which Dr. Gary Teare explains how Quality Insight came to be, you can view it here, and watch for episode three in the next few weeks.(April 16, 2012)

See Quality Insight for updated Patient Experience Survey results: New monthly and quarterly data - to December 2011 - for the Acute Care Patient Experience Survey indicators have just been added to Quality Insight. (March 26, 2012)

CDMCII improved care for people with depression and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: We released a final report on the second Chronic Disease Management Collaborative today. The large-scale improvement initiative, which involved 49 family practices, ran from October 2009 to March 2011. (February 16, 2011)

Tenth report on Releasing Time to Care(TM) program now available - In this report for the quarter November 2011 - January 2012: there are now 86 wards (2,432 beds) in Saskatchewan implementing the program; Cypress Health Region has a patient representative on the Shift Handovers team on one of its wards; Regina General Hospital has reduced the time it takes to document a head-to-toe assessment of each patient, saving approximately 120 hours a month; and, much more. (February 13, 2012)

New video blog now on Quality Insight web site: Cypress Health Region is the first region in Saskatchewan to have its quality of care indicators published on the Quality Insight website. Why did Cypress want to do this? How might the public react to it? How will Cypress use the information to improve care? In this new video blog, you'll hear the answers to these questions directly from the leaders and staff in Cypress Health Region, and from those at HQC who were involved in this collaboration. We're starting the series with a little background on Quality Insight -what it is and how it came to be. (February 8, 2012)