Strengthening Primary Care in Northern, Rural and Remote Communities
Healthcare Excellence Canada has launched a new program to strengthen access to team-based primary care in northern, rural and remote communities.
Program overview :
People who live in these communities often prefer care closer to home, avoiding medical transport and transfers, but they tend to have poorer access to primary care compared to their urban-dwelling counterparts. Healthcare providers also experience unique opportunities and challenges, including broader scopes of practice, travel and helping patients and families navigate remote services and medical travel.
In the midst of these circumstances, northern, rural and remote communities and the people who live, work and play in them are demonstrating incredible commitment and resourcefulness, building on community strengths to respond to health needs.
Strengthening Primary Care in Northern, Rural and Remote Communities (Strengthening Primary Care) will bring together teams of primary care providers, organizations and communities and support them to advance their unique improvement goals and share and learn with others. Participants in this program will receive tailored support to advance a promising practice to improve equitable access to safe, including culturally safe, high-quality team-based primary care closer to home.
This program will help drive adoption and spread of promising practices that are improving access to primary care in Canada to meet unique needs and goals of communities, patients and providers. Examples of possible program impacts include:
- Improved access to team-based primary care
- Improved patient and provider experiences of care
- Safer, including more culturally safe, care
- Reduced avoidable emergency department visits
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Promising Practices for Strengthening Primary Care in Northern, Rural and Remote Communities
Read six short summaries of promising practices that are improving access to safe, high-quality team-based care across the country.
Featured content
Promising Practices for Strengthening Primary Care in Northern, Rural and Remote Communities
Read six short summaries of promising practices that are improving access to safe, high-quality team-based care across the country.
Organizations and communities invited to participate
HEC invited 20 teams to participate in this program. Learn more about the teams and where they’re located.
Learn more
Have questions about this new program? Contact strengthening-primarycare@hec-esc.ca to learn more.
