News Release
August 30, 2005
For immediate release
Minister Dosanjh Announces $1,162,562 in Funding to Laval University
QUEBEC CITY - The Honourable Ujjal Dosanjh, federal Minister of Health, announced today that Health Canada is allocating $1,162,562 to Laval University for the development of interprofessional collaboration to promote more patient-centred health care practices.
The purpose of the project is to develop, test, and evaluate a program of interprofessional training, and to encourage health professionals to work better as members of multidisciplinary teams. Entitled "Le patient au coeur de nos actions : mieux se former pour mieux collaborer" or Patient-Centred Care: Better Training for Better Collaboration, the project is designed for university students in various disciplines, and for professionals working in the various French-speaking practice settings in and around Quebec City. The project will begin this year and run to the end of the 2007-2008 fiscal year.
"The Government of Canada is proud to be associated with such a project, which is an investment in the training of health care professionals, with the ultimate goal of being better able to respond to needs, with increased patient safety and satisfaction through better health care," said Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh. "Interprofessional collaboration will allow us to provide Canadians with a modern and efficient health care system."
The partners in the project, specifically the faculties of medicine and nursing and the school of social service at Laval, along with the local health and social services centre, intend to set up a training project to develop, test and evaluate an integrated interprofessional training program that will extend from theoretical training received at university through to continuing education. The purpose is to develop a collaborative approach to patient-centred care founded on four pillars: (1) based on courses already being offered at Laval, initial training will be provided on the theoretical and practical fundamentals required for patient-oriented collaborative practice; (2) development of a multiprofessional internship to develop the praxes supporting collaborative work; (3) workshops for practising professionals, to develop and refine the skills necessary for collaborative practice; and (4) development of technological and educational information reference tools in support of the other three pillars as well as a virtual community of practice, the whole of which will facilitate self-learning by participants.
The project developed at Laval is part of the Interprofessional Education for Collaborative Patient-Centred Practice (IECPCP) initiative. It is one of 11 projects coming on stream across Canada with total funding of $13 million within a two and a half year period, ending in March 2008 from the Government of Canada.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/media/nr-cp/2005/2005_48_e.html
IECPCP is one of the three initiatives of the Pan-Canadian Health Human Resources Strategy. The other two initiatives of the Strategy are Health Human Resource Planning, and Recruitment and Retention. The objectives of the Strategy, which receives $20 million annually from the federal government, are first, to offer a stable workforce with a sufficient number of professionals that are well distributed across the various disciplines and second, to ensure a renewed and revitalized health care system that can provide Canadians with the care they need, wherever they live in Canada .
This announcement is a response to the commitments made under the 2003 First Ministers' Accord on Health Care Renewal and the 10-year plan to strengthen health care (2004). These plans were designed, among other things, to strengthen our human resources in the health care field, shorten wait times, and improve access to care.
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