The bulk of the money — $125 million — is to be used to implement recommendations currently being studied by advisory panels.
The review includes primary care networks, which incorporate a team-based care model with doctors, nurses and other health professionals working together.Alberta mother devastated after receiving the wrong baby remains from Wetaskiwin HospitalThe province said in addition, $12 million will go to support IT systems designed to improve the continuity of care across the province.
Three advisory panels were established through MAPS in fall 2022 to identify primary health care improvements in the short term and over the next 10 years. A final report with a recommended strategy to modernize the primary health-care system will be finalized in this spring, the province said Tuesday.
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