Panel on Primary Care

Manitoba Priorities: A Panel on Primary Care

The OurCare Manitoba Priorities Panel brought together 30 people living in Manitoba, randomly selected to roughly match the province’s demographics. They spent approximately 30 hours learning from experts and deliberating together before making recommendations on what a better primary care system should look like. OurCare has also conducted Priorities Panels in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and Nova Scotia in 2023. For more information, visit OurCare.ca/PrioritiesPanels.

Below are some of the recommended highlights from the report, but please feel welcome to click on either article to learn more or visit: OurCare

Recommendation Highlights:

Ensure holistic, person-centred care
● Continue the shift from individual fee-for-service practitioners to team-based models (e.g., ACCESS centres) that offer holistic care from a variety of in-house professionals.
● Offer after hours care, 24/7 access to primary care to ensure continuous access and move beyond the traditional 9-5 practice hours.

Equity and Social Determinants of Health
● Mandate cultural humility training as a requirement to keeping one’s license in good standing.
● Establish mobile health clinics that bring primary care to rural and remote residents.
● Mandate a social worker or community resource worker as a full-time member of all health teams.

Increase the number of health professionals
● Expedite the process to recognize the qualifications of internationally trained medical graduates and develop peer mentorship-based training to help them integrate into the Canadian system.
● University of Manitoba and University College of the North should establish and offer a range of education and training programs, in the north, for primary care providers.
● Actively promote Manitoba as an appealing place to live and practice medicine.

Our Care Manitoba (At-A-Glance Document)

Our Care Manitoba (Full Document)

OurCare MB Panels Group

RTAM MEMBER BENEFITS	STUDENT BENEFITS
1. The project will provide the means and incentive to increase communication between RTAM members and their family high school students they are sponsoring.	1 Portfolios encourage the collection of artifacts and evidence by the student to support their successful writing of award and scholarships applications.
2. Recognizing the importance of a post-secondary education, RTAM members can feel pride in the role they will play in supporting their family members to be awarded funding to help with the high costs of today’s world.	2 Portfolios help students focus on their knowledge, skills and attitudes to support their successful applications for bursaries and scholarship.
3. This project will provide RTAM members with an opportunity to experience renewed passion in their roles as teacher and mentor working with their family members.	3 Portfolios help students track their changes and growth in important leadership skills through their high school experience.
4. RTAM member involvement with their family members will promote positive mental health opportunities during a time when COVID has caused many to experience social and physical isolation.	4 Portfolios assist the student in becoming more aware of their own learning experiences and history.
5. RTAM member involvement will support a sense of purpose in their lives and offer them a sense of social value to society.	5 Portfolios provide a framework to encourage students’ self-assessment leading to a more accurate choice of how they want to spend their future, their career aspirations.
6. RTAM members will increase their opportunities to know and understand their youth family members’ challenges and issues while developing a relationship and creating a sense of trust.	6 Portfolios provide a framework with resources for building a resume and completing university/college entrance applications as well as job applications.
7. RTAM members can offer direct input into the writing of the applications to enhance the students’ chances of being successful.	7 Portfolios save the student the time and agony of trying to recall their experiences and gather all their information to complete applications in their graduating year.
	8 Portfolios provide students support to practice informed decision-making regarding their personal and professional opportunity selections.

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