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The College provided a written submission to the Select Standing Committee on Health that promotes better collaboration amongst health care professionals in order to improve health outcomes and create a more sustainable system.
The committee issued a call for submissions on how to ensure the quality and sustainability of the BC health care system in October 2014, with a deadline of December 31, 2014.
The Select Standing Committee on Health used four questions to guide submissions. While more than one question could be addressed, the College focused on creating a cost-effective system of primary and community care built around interdisciplinary teams.
The College’s five recommendations are as follows:
- Establish a pilot of interdisciplinary primary and community care teams that includes pharmacists. The pilot should use the Plan-Do-Study-Act methodology, include multiple sites and evaluate costs and outcomes.
- Evaluate the impact of location, practice setting, and funding model on the efficiency of interdisciplinary primary and community care teams.
- Invest in healthcare teams that include pharmacists performing interventions in areas where there can be immediate benefits and improved outcomes, such as de-prescribing/reducing pill burden, and medication management for frail elderly persons.
- Support inter-professional education, which should include students from multiple disciplines studying and working together at the post-secondary education level.
- Continue to implement EMRs, and mandate that all electronic health systems are able to communicate with one another. In addition, ensure that EMRs envelop effective documentation capabilities to facilitate outcomes assessment and evaluation.
Click here to view the College’s submission to the Select Standing Committee on Health.
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