Provincial-Territorial Envelope Initiatives
Nunavut
$4,508,924
Objective:
To ensure the sustainability and affordability of Nunavut's primary health care system.
Activities:
Nunavut's Department of Health and Social Services is undertaking a series of staged, transitional initiatives that will result in structural change to the territory's primary health care system.
Two initiatives are essential prerequisites for the evolution of Nunavut's primary health care system to be responsive and to meet the current and future primary health care needs of the people of Nunavut:
- A change management process, focussing on community involvement and provider support, which will lead to integrated, co-ordinated, patient- and community-focussed primary health care; and
- An information management strategy directed at the provision of clear, useful information to support quality primary health care.
Expected Results:
A primary health care system that is sustainable, effective, and accountable, and ensures that Nunavummiut continue to maintain their unique identity in developing the infrastructure, resources, and health care capacity to fulfill the vision of Nunavut's founders.
Initiatives are also expected to:
- Increase community participation in the design and delivery of primary health care services;
- Increase the number of health care providers that are more closely linked with community members and that have a better understanding of Inuit culture;
- Create a team-based approach to primary health care; and
- Standardize the collection and use of health information.
Contact:
Gogi Greeley
Primary Health Care Implementation Coordinator
Nunavut Dept. of Health and Social Services
Simmuvut Building #1107, 3rd floor
P.O. Box 1000, Station 1000
Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0
Tel: (867) 975-5763
Fax: (867) 975-5705
Email: ggreeley@gov.nu.ca
 www.gov.nu.ca/hss.htm
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