Primary Care Access Improvement
Primary Care Access Improvement helps team-based primary care organizations create efficiencies and optimize team functioning so patients can receive timely and appropriate care while ensuring continuity.
With the support of a coach, 24 team-based primary care organizations will apply five pillars of a contemporary Advanced Access model. Each pillar identifies an area of work necessary for the successful implementation of contemporary Advanced Access in primary care practices. This approach helps healthcare teams balance appointment availability with patient demand so people can get care without long delays or relying on emergency departments.
Meet the teams
The 24 teams participating in Primary Care Access Improvement come from 7 provinces and represent the breadth of primary care in Canada. From community health centres and family health teams to hospital-affiliated practices and independent clinics.
What is Advanced Access?
As more people look for ways to expand access to primary care, Advanced Access offers a proven solution that can reduce wait times, improve patient experiences and lighten workloads for primary care teams while boosting job satisfaction.
Advanced Access is a widely endorsed quality improvement (QI) model that enables patients to access primary care services when they need it, considering urgency of care needs, while ensuring continuity of care. It achieves this by creating efficiencies and optimizing team functioning in primary care settings in urban, rural, northern and remote areas.
“With the flexibility that Advanced Access allows us, we were able to offer timely appointments for our patients.”
- Nurse
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The Five Central Pillars of Advanced Access
Contemporary Advanced Access helps primary care teams improve access, reduce wait times, and deliver timely, patient-centred care using five pillars. Find out how it can help your team deliver the right care, at the right time.
Enhancing Integrated Care
Primary and community care delivery organizations work to strengthen integrated team-based care, including virtual care.
Right Care Challenge
Health and social care delivery teams ensure people get the right care, at the right time, in the right place.
Paramedics and Social Prescribing
Paramedic teams implement social prescribing to connect people with non-medical social and community supports.
Change happens in partnership
Supporting organizations across Canada are helping drive meaningful progress as part of Care Forward.
Change happens in partnership
Supporting organizations across Canada are helping drive meaningful progress as part of Care Forward.
Care Forward
A growing pan-Canadian movement where innovative strategies and shared knowledge are transforming care for over a million people across Canada.
Care Forward
A growing pan-Canadian movement where innovative strategies and shared knowledge are transforming care for over a million people across Canada.
