Primary Health Care Practitioner Forum Enhancing Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Primary Health Care (EICPHC)

EICP Background $6.5M Contribution Agreement from Health Canada (PHCTF) with 10 National Health Care Associations to Support Change Process Defined: Primary Health Care, Interdisciplinary Collaboration Principles and Framework, How to Tool Kit Research, Consultations, Interactive Website 16 Regional Consultations in September

Introductions Your name Professional designation Funny story from your practice/work setting

Agenda for the Forum Morning Introductions and Orientations Environmental Scan Today’s Reality – The Practitioner Work Setting Primary Health Care in 2015 Afternoon Clinical Vignette Exercise Principles of Collaboration Solutions to EICP Closing

EICP Objectives To gather critical practitioner data on interdisciplinary collaboration in primary health care – issues and challenges facing reform Develop 1 st approximation of the principles Create awareness of the barriers to interdisciplinary collaboration in primary health care.

Expectations My principal objective for this session is… ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________

Environmental Scan What significant conditions or events have you seen in the last 5 years that will influence the future of the Primary Health Care System?

Today’s Reality – The Practitioners Work Setting Describe your quality of life and job satisfaction as a practitioner in primary health care? In your work setting, what are the key challenges you face in the delivery of primary health care? – communication, care plan development, shared electronic patient records? What are your current individual attitudes and perceptions towards interdisciplinary collaboration in primary health care?

Primary Health Care in In the future, what will the Primary Health Care environment look like if current trends prevail? What is the most probable future environment? 2.Looking out ten years to the year 2015, what would you like the Primary Health Care environment to look like? The most desirable future environment?

Experiencing Interdisciplinary Collaboration- Individual You have been working in a small urban primary health care clinic for over fifteen years. Ms. Judy Strebor, a fifty-five year old mildly obese female, presents to your clinic with a long-standing history of diabetes. She has multiple complaints, which she would like you to address.

Experiencing Interdisciplinary Collaboration - Individual 1.What is the most likely reason that Ms. Strebor has come to see you? 2.Briefly describe the process you would follow to arrive at a diagnosis/clinical impression. 3.How can you help Mrs. Strebor?

Experiencing Interdisciplinary Collaboration- Team You have been working in a interdisciplinary urban primary health care centre for over fifteen years. Judy Strebor, a fifty-five year old mildly obese female, presents to your clinic with a long-standing history of diabetes. She has multiple complaints, which she would like you to address.

Experiencing Interdisciplinary Collaboration - Team 1.What is the most likely reason that Ms. Strebor has come to see your team at the health centre? 2.Briefly describe the process your team would follow to arrive at a diagnosis/clinical impression. 3.How can your team help Mrs. Strebor?

Experiencing Interdisciplinary Collaboration 1.What were some of the differences between the individual assessment and the group assessment on these three questions? 2.What surprised you?

Experiencing Interdisciplinary Collaboration 1.What did you like about the group process? What worked well? 2.What didn’t you like about it? What didn't work well?

Experiencing Interdisciplinary Collaboration 1.What was really going on in the group discussion? What were the underlying values or factors being expressed?

Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Primary Health Care Setting Based on the literature review provided what values or principles for interdisciplinary collaboration are missing?

Solutions for Enhancing Collaboration 1.What solutions or strategies are needed to overcome the challenges facing Interdisciplinary Care in PHC. 2.What role does leadership play and where will it come from?