Provincial-Territorial Envelope Initiatives
Manitoba
$20,844,059
Manitoba Health defines the principles of primary health care as community participation, population health, inter-sectoral or interdisciplinary, accessibility, and appropriateness, continuity of care, efficiency, affordability, and sustainability.
Objective:
To ensure the sustainability and affordability of Manitoba's primary health care system.
Activities:
Using a phased approach to primary health care renewal initiatives, Manitoba Health is implementing 4 foundational initiatives in the first phase:
- Expand existing telehealth system;
- Enhance, expand, and integrate primary health care service delivery for emergency medical services;
- Enhance information technology; and
- Establish and integrate collaborative practice training programs for primary health care providers.
In the second phase, Manitoba Health is providing support to regional health authorities to implement initiatives, based on the principles of primary health care, which:
- Promote development of primary health care organizations to deliver service to Manitobans;
- Enable primary health care service providers to deliver services in ways that reflect these principles; and
- Improve ability of primary health care organizations to manage this type of service delivery.
Expected Results:
- Established fully-operational, 24/7, province-wide, real-time telehealth service by 2004;
- Established emergency medical services staff trained and operational as integrated members of the multi-disciplinary primary health team;
- Enhanced primary health care information management;
- Established collaborative practice clinical training system for advanced practice nursing, family medicine, social work, and pharmacy;
- Increased public and provider support for primary health care renewal;
- Increased primary health care organizations and interdisciplinary collaborations at local and regional levels; and
- Enhanced infrastructure to support primary health care delivery.
Some initiatives are one-time only costs. Ongoing initiatives will be sustained by Manitoba Health or by the appropriate regional health authority.
Contact:
Marie O'Neill
Director, Primary Health Care
Manitoba Health
4036 - 300 Carlton Street
Winnipeg, MB R3B 3M9
Tel: (204) 786-7176
Fax: (204) 779-1044
Email: maoneill@gov.mb.ca
 www.gov.mb.ca/health
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