Primary Healthcare
Primary healthcare, often shortened to PHC, refers to the activity of healthcare providers who are the first point of consultation for patients. The effectiveness of primary healthcare is fundamental to an efficient, quality healthcare system, which is why primary healthcare touches all areas of our work at CHSRF.
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What's New
Picking Up the Pace conference materials now online
The aim of Picking Up the Pace: How to accelerate change in primary healthcare was to enable peer-to-peer learning and to build relationships that would lead to positive change in the delivery of primary healthcare across Canada. We have posted the Casebook of Primary Healthcare Innovations and presentation slides, plus the feature videos produced for the event.
» Presentations page
» Videos on CHSRF’s YouTube channel
Clinical Nurse Specialists and Nurse Practitioners In Canada: A decision support synthesis
» Full report
CHSRF funds economic analysis of high-quality PHC
CHSRF is providing up to $50,000 to the C.T. Lamont Primary Healthcare Research Centre to study the economics of achieving high-quality healthcare.
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Improving Canada's primary healthcare: benefits and opportunities
These three reports outline the opportunities for enhancing Canada's primary healthcare sector through the application of evidence - and the benefits of doing so. They will be used by CHSRF and the Canadian Working Group for Primary Healthcare Improvement to help guide their work in primary healthcare.
» Go to reports (Released January 2010)
More CHSRF Publications about Primary Healthcare
- "Networks and social capital: a relational approach to primary healthcare reform," Insight and Action, July 2008 » Read article
- Interprofessional Collaboration and Quality Primary Healthcare, December 2007 » Full report (PDF, 379 KB) | Appendices (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Mapping the Future of Primary Healthcare Research in Canada, September 2007 » Full report (PDF, 326 KB) | Executive summary (PDF, 196 KB) | One-page backgrounder (PDF, 117 KB)
- Inventory of Primary Healthcare Evaluation Projects and Strategies in Canada, April 2005 (updated April 2006) » Full report (PDF, 2 MB)
Other Resources
- Waiting for Care, EvidenceNetwork.ca
- More Care is not Always Better, EvidenceNetwork.ca
- Health is More than Healthcare, EvidenceNetwork.ca
- A Survey of Primary Care Physicians in 11 Countries, 2009: Perspectives on Care, Costs, and Experiences, Commonwealth Fund, November 2009
- Diabetes Care Gaps and Disparities in Canada, CIHI, December 2009
- Implementing Family Medicine Groups: The Challenges of Reorganizing a Practice and of Inter-Professional Collaboration, April 2006
- Measuring the Performance of Primary Health Care: Existing Capacity and Future Information Needs
CHSRF contact for primary healthcare:
Kevin Barclay
Senior Policy Advisor, Policy Group
Tel. (613) 728-2238 ext. 250
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