National Envelope- Tools for Transition - Federal/Provincial/Territorial Component Initiatives
Enhancing Primary Health Care: Learning and Applying Facilitation within a Systems Model
$445,600
Led by the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland, this initiative will improve a range of primary health services by integrating facilitation into the primary health care system. Facilitation has been defined as assisting the progress of moving forward, making easy, smoothing the path of and speeding up the process in the primary health care systems. Facilitation, integrated into primary health care project activities, would enhance and support activities/goals (health promotion, prevention, chronic disease management) of the teams. The facilitation will enable inter-disciplinary and individual teams in the primary health care system to take control and responsibility for the way to proceed.
Partners:
The partners with whom the organization will work on this initiative consist of Departments/Ministries in 5 provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland) and Departments of Family Medicine in 3 provinces (University of Saskatchewan, University of Ottawa, Memorial University of Newfoundland).
Activities:
- Identify lead facilitators for each province involved, a Facilitation Coordinator for the initiative, and develop a facilitation manual for the Canadian context;
- Coordinate a national facilitation workshop;
- Integrate facilitation activities into primary health care renewal activities within each of the provinces involved; and
- Evaluate the activities to measure the outcomes.
Expected Results:
- Enhanced facilitation skills for health care practitioners;
- Better integration of prevention and management of chronic diseases;
- Increased emphasis on health promotion, disease and injury prevention; and
- Enhanced management and documentation of preventive practices in the primary health care system.
Contact:
Conleth O'Maonaigh
Department of Family Medicine
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Health Sciences Centre
St. John's, NL A1B 3V6
Tel: (709) 777-6743
Fax: (709) 777-7913
Email: conleth@mun.ca
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