Public Opinion in Health Care – Final Report of the Health Care in Canada Invitational Roundtable

The Institute of Health Economics organized the November 17 roundtable, with funding from Merck and in-kind support from the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. The roundtable served as an initial gathering of the original partners and invited delegates (see Appendix I for full participant list) to further develop the HCiC partnership and begin planning the 2012 survey. This report provides background to the roundtable and presents the key messages from the discussion as well as participants’ comments from the question sheets circulated at the meeting. It also offers an initial listing of recent or upcoming public opinion polling, survey or engagement activities of relevance (see Appendix II). This report will be used to inform subsequent meetings with the expanded HCiC partnership in early 2012.