Towards a new leadership for the improvement of health services in French : Pour un nouveau leadership en matière d'amélioration des services de santé en français

TOWARDS A NEW LEADERSHIP FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES IN FRENCH REPORT TO THE FEDERAL MINISTER OF HEALTH SUBMITTED BY THE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE FOR FRENCH-SPEAKING MINORITY COMMUNITIES FEBRUARY 2007 REPORT TO THE FEDERAL MINISTER OF HEALTH Prepared by the Consultative Committee for French-Speaking Minority Communities with the support of the Official Language Community Development Bure [...] The report focused on the fact that the quality of health services is closely tied to the ability of health care providers to communicate in the language of their patients and thus assist, advise, direct and educate them. [...] With this in mind, the Committee defined six sub-objectives for increasing the availability of Francophone professionals in minority communities and improving access to health services in French: 1. Increase the pool of Francophone health professionals 2. Promote the placement of graduates in the communities. [...] THE COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH Increase the availability of Francophone health Improve access to French- professionals in the language health services communities 1. Increase the pool of 2. Promote the placement of 5. Inform and involve the Francophone health care graduates in the community community professionals • Geographic proximity of • Concerted effort by the • Increase the number of training ac [...] Many of the activities have had the result of mobilizing the various stakeholders, for example, meetings every four to 12 weeks of committees composed of representatives of the five stakeholder groups, training workshops for health care professionals (in eight networks), the organization of approximately 75 conferences, and the launch of more than 71 initiatives relating to access to health servic