News Release
1999-45
March 22, 1999
Government of Canada announces funding for two health care projects in Quebec
Longueuil - Jacques Saada, Member of Parliament for Brossard-La Prairie, today announced, on behalf of Health Minister Allan Rock, federal government funding for two pilot projects relating to practices and services in the areas of primary care and health services integration. These projects will be carried out in Quebec and will be funded through the Health Transition Fund.
"If we are to build a health care system that will serve us into the next century, we must rethink how we deliver a full range of health care services to Canadians," said Mr. Rock. "That is why projects like these are important. They allow us to test new concepts, collaborate on initiatives and share best practices for the benefit of patients and health care providers across the country."
These projects are aimed at testing and evaluating innovative health care initiatives. They will bear on, among other things, new measures encouraging disease prevention and health promotion among front-line physicians in Montérégie, and implementation of a model for organization of integrated care and services, funded on a capitation basis and offering health services to the population in the regional county municipality of Haut-Saint-Laurent.
The projects announced today were analysed and recommended by Quebec's Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux in accordance with Quebec priorities. The projects will receive a combined total of $3.7 million in funding from the federal government through the Health Transition Fund (HTF). This amount is in addition to the $22.1 million for the 29 projects announced in Quebec since July 1998 under the HTF.
The Health Transition Fund was created by the federal government in 1997 in response to a recommendation by the National Forum on Health. It is designed to generate information and evidence on the organization, funding and delivery of health services in four priority areas -- home care, pharmacare, primary care and integrated service delivery. The project evaluation results will be shared with the provinces and territories. National-level projects have been allocated $30 million, and provincial and territorial projects have been allocated $120 million. The latter amount is distributed on a per capita basis.
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