Cancer Screening Learning Collaborative - Evaluation Report

The Learning Collaborative (LC) is a short-term learning system that brings together peers from multiple organizations to seek improvement in a focused topic area, with guidance from a coach or practice facilitator. This approach was developed by the Institute for Health Information (IHI)’s Collaborative Model for Achieving Breakthrough Improvement.The Alliance for Healthier Communities planned and implemented its first LC in 2021 with teams participating from 10 Community Health Centres and 3 Aboriginal Health Access Centres. The first objective of this collaborative was to build quality improvement (QI) knowledge and skills among participating teams. The second objective was to improve cancer screening rates impacted by the COVID-19 backlog through utilization of QI theory, tools and resources.

Evaluation of this LC was embedded throughout to answer two key questions:

1. Was the learning collaborative implemented as intended?
2. Did the learning collaborative meet its intended objectives and/or planned outcomes?

This report relays a summary of key findings, how the LC was implemented, and evaluation results. The report will also highlight the recommendations shared by participating teams that were incorporated to improve ongoing and future LCs.