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Safer opioid supply programs: protecting at-risk communities

When the unregulated drug supply in Canada became increasingly potent and unpredictable, clinicians across the country faced an urgent question: how could they better protect people at the highest risk of overdose?

Discover ICES Data and Resources

Learn how to access ICES data and about the impact of data, research and analytics on people, policy and healthcare delivery.

In Our VoICES Podcast

More Than a Prescription: Building Community for Better Care

How is social prescribing reshaping modern healthcare—and what could it mean for patients and caregivers?

In this episode Dr. Kate Mulligan and Liv Mendelsohn discuss what social prescribing is, its impact on health care, and the need for investment and policy change to embed the practice in care systems.

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Access ICES Data

There are several ways that researchers and scientists can access ICES data.

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Data Privacy at ICES

Every time someone in Ontario makes use of the health system, new data is added to the overall picture of that system. Since 1992, much of this data has been entrusted to ICES. We use data to help the government evaluate and plan for the health system through analytics.

We also use your data for research purposes. We ensure that your data is protected at every point of its lifecycle through strong privacy and security safeguards.

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A growing network across Ontario

ICES is located on the campus of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto and has sites at Queen’s University in Kingston (ICES Queen’s), the University of Ottawa (ICES uOttawa), the University of Toronto (ICES UofT), Western University in London (ICES Western), the Health Sciences North Research Institute in Sudbury, in partnership with Laurentian University and NOSM University (ICES North), and previously at McMaster University in Hamilton (ICES McMaster).