This report was prepared by the OECD Health Division. It was coordinated by Tim Atkins (previously with the OECD and currently at the Care Quality Commission, United Kingdom) and Elina Suzuki, and benefited from the expertise and participation of experts within the Health Division as well as country delegates and experts. The report was written by Tim Atkins and Elina Suzuki. Chapter 3 was also co-authored by Ivy Wong, Julie Dunning, Dr. Geoffrey Anderson, Dr. Onil Bhattacharyya, Dr. Samir Sinha, Dara Gordon, Dilzayn Panjwani and Sara Shearkhani, who are all part of BeACCoN (Ontario’s Network in Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovations), as well as Ishtar Al-Shammari of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) in London, United Kingdom.
The findings of this report were strongly informed by work to pilot dementia quality of care indicators undertaken by the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators (HCQI) Expert Group. The authors would like to thank the country delegates and experts who provided responses to the scoping survey and questionnaire, as well as those who participated in interviews for the report. The report also benefited from the very helpful comments received by delegates from the OECD Health Committee meeting.
The completion of this report was made possible through the generous support of the United Kingdom. We especially thank David Nuttall and Simon Dowlman of the Department of Health, United Kingdom, for their feedback during the drafting of the report. The authors are also deeply grateful to Paola Barbarino, Chris Lynch, Glen Rees and James Smith of Alzheimer’s Disease International for their very valuable feedback on multiple iterations of the report.
The authors are also grateful to the contributions of the staff from the OECD Health Division. In particular, the authors would like to recognise Ana Llena‑Nozal, who leads the work on long-term care, and Emily Hewlett, for their very helpful comments on multiple drafts of the report. Thanks also go to Lucy Hulett, Eileen Rocard and Duniya Dedeyn for their administrative support and help in preparing the manuscript for publication. We are very grateful to Francesca Colombo, Head of the Health Division, for supervising the preparation of this report and providing useful comments on various drafts. Thank you as well to Monika Queisser, Head of the Social Policy Division, for her insightful comments. We also thank Stefano Scarpetta and Mark Pearson, Director and Deputy Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs at the OECD for their guidance and extensive comments on various versions of the report.