News Release
1998-45
July 21, 1998
Federal Health Minister announces funding for a pilot health services integration project
Rivière-du-Loup - Health Minister Allan Rock today announced a new Health Transition Fund pilot project, in Quebec, aimed at improving primary health care and integrated service delivery. The project focuses on prevention programs, ambulatory medical care, psychosocial, community and rehabilitative services.
"This project will supply practical information concerning the functioning of an integrated, community approach to health care," said Mr. Rock, " and it supports federal efforts to revitalize and modernize our health care system. The information it supplies will enable all levels of government, within Quebec and elsewhere in Canada, to find new, more efficient methods of health care delivery."
The project, entitled A Network of Basic Integrated Services: Developing it, publicizing it and measuring how the population and the stakeholders perceive it, will analyse the factors affecting the implementation of an integrated network of health and social services in two Quebec regional county municipalities (MROC): Témiscouata and Matapédia. It will also attempt to determine the level of public acceptance, and health care workers support, of the changes which have been made to the delivery of health care services. The project is being implemented by the Lower St. Lawrence Regional Health and Social Services Board.
The project was reviewed and recommended by the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec who concluded that this initiative concurred with priorities set forth in the province. Its funding of $92,393 will be financed by the federal government's Health Transition Fund.
The Health Transition Fund was created by the federal government in l997 in response to a recommendation by the National Forum on Health. Its purpose is to provide reliable information and data concerning the organization, funding and delivery of health care services in four priority areas - home care, pharmacare, primary care and integrated service delivery.
Evaluation results of projects will be shared with the provinces and territories. The fund provides $30 million to national level projects and $120 million to provincial and territorial projects allocated on a per capita basis.
Announcements about further national, provincial and territorial projects will be forthcoming.
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Media Inquiries:
Derek Kent
Office of Allan Rock
(613) 957-1515
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