It is time to invest in team-based care

Christie Newton

doi:10.46747/cfp.6902143

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RE: Family Medicine has become more complex. April 2023 CFP Journal
Christopher Kenworthy

Published on: 24 April 2023
RE: President’s Message
Reg l Perkins

Published on: 23 February 2023

Published on: (24 April 2023)
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RE: Family Medicine has become more complex. April 2023 CFP Journal
Christopher Kenworthy, Retired Family Physician. LMCCFP., None.
This is an excellent article. Thank you. Thank you also for your responses to the Town Hall questions tonight. 24.4.2023

I think you need to leave copies of your article plus Dr.Kolber's article(The Value of Family Medicine...An impossible job, done impossibly well) whenever you talk to a member of the press, or a politician...in fact everyone! It will help them understand what we are about.

Perhaps in another email, I can open up a discussion about the use of patient records in seniors facilities and privacy. Who has access, and since the visiting Doctor needs to make copies of his/her visit for his own records and the facility, just how this can be done, especially if the facility has no computerised records. And how the doctor can be paid for keeping 2 medical records up to date, in seperate places (or more) at the same time.

Competing Interests: None declared.
Published on: (23 February 2023)
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RE: President’s Message
Reg l Perkins, MD, CCFP
Dear Dr. Newton:

Your President’s Message in the February 2023 issue of CFP was right on target.

Team based care, as envisioned in the Patients Medical Home Model, is precisely what the CFPC should be promoting, and providing the resources and help that will be needed to bring groups of family physicians serving a community together. Clearly large cities and rural communities will need special strategies to achieve this team based model of care. And governments will need to provide significant amounts of money. But, if it can be achieved, and it will take time, I agree strongly with you that it will solve the problems now confronting primary health care in Canada.

Family physicians working in a group alongside nurse practitioners, counsellors, occupational and physiotherapists, and other health care professionals as required, can provide more and better care to a much larger population than they could in total working individually. It sure would help if healthcare in Canada was National instead of Provincial, but I guess that is me really “dreaming”!

Anyway, what you wrote in this month’s CFP was “bang on” and I hope that the CFPC makes it a high priority and gets it started. I am now in my 93rd year but I hope to be around long enough to at least see the process underway. All the best!

Reg Perkin

Competing Interests: None declared.