The Importance of Interprofessional Collaboration in Health Care in Rural and Northern Settings /

We exist for the purposes of: with the themes and objectives of the Growth Plan for Northern Ontario, 2011; • The development and promotion of proactive, evidence based and purpose driven policy Collaboration: Northern Policy Institute recognizes options that deepen understanding about the the value of multi-stakeholder, multi-disciplinary, unique challenges of Northern Ontario and and multicultur [...] Interprofessional care is “the provision fragmented care and varied access to health care of comprehensive health services to patients by services across rural and northern communities, further multiple health care providers who work collaboratively validating the need for strategies to provide improved to deliver quality care within and across settings,” access to care in these settings. [...] The extent that interprofessional care is relevant The Drummond Report indicated that Ontarians and to meeting health care needs in rural and northern Canadians want access to quality care, and that settings needs to be determined, as well as its utility proper planning for health care delivery will ensure within the context of the present health system, that this happens (Drummond, 2012). [...] The framework of the health sustainability of Northern Ontario communities (Ministry care system also plays a role in access to health care of Infrastructure, Ministry of Northern Development and in these communities. [...] One of these initiatives was the to support models of interprofessional care in health creation of the Quality Management Collaborative, human resource planning for northern and rural renamed the Quality Improvement and Innovation areas; and to provide professional supports such as Partnership by the MOHLTC in 2007, the objective of implementing activities to promote development of which was to as