The ideas we want to implement are not novel; they have been informed by other high-performing health systems across the globe — ones that have purposefully organized around and prioritized investments in primary health care.
Moving to a new model of physician-led team-based care in the community will require us all — primary health-care professionals and patients — to learn to work together in new ways. Having family physicians lead these interdisciplinary care teams will ensure that patients receive co-ordinated, comprehensive care over the longer term.
Frail and aging people may be better served by visits from the appropriate health-care workers in their homes. Patients will receive the right care, at the right time, by the right member of the team.
SaskCatch Good. It needs an overhaul and full funding.