Government Strategies related to the Ministry
of Health Services and the Ministry of Health Planning |
Ministry of Health Services and Ministry
of Health Planning Strategies |
Goal 1: A Strong
and Vibrant Economy |
Expand partnerships with the
federal government to promote growth and economic development
in British Columbia. |
MOHS Strategy 4: Make
data accessible, with due attention to quality, security and
privacy protection, to support improved planning of patient
care and clinical decision making by partners (e.g., Electronic
Health Record; CDM registries; inter-provincial/national data
collection standards and registries).
MOHS Strategy 2: Align health care funding with BC's
strategic priorities, while ensuring health care commitments
made with other governments are met.
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Develop a provincial human
resources strategy to ensure British Columbia has the skilled
workforce to support British Columbia growth. |
MOHP Strategy 7: Ensure
the healthcare system has the capacity to meet the population's
health needs by developing provincial plans for the supply and
effective use of health care professionals, facilities and infrastructure. |
All ministries will meet their
budget and service plan targets. |
MOHS Strategy 9: Monitor
financial status to ensure overall health system costs stay
within budget. |
Promote and sustain a renewed
professional public service. |
MOHP Strategy 14: Implement
Human Resource Management Plan for the Ministries of Health.
MOHS Strategy 12: Implement Human Resource Management
Plan for the Ministries of Health.
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Establish public private partnerships
or other alternative service delivery arrangements for capital
infrastructure and program delivery. |
MOHP Strategy 6: Provide
legislative, regulatory and policy frameworks that provide greater
flexibility in how and what services are delivered to ensure
appropriate and cost-effective service delivery (e.g., Public
private partnerships). |
Goal 2: A Supportive
Social Fabric |
Facilitate a community-based
approach to ensure access to high quality and cost effective
health, education and social services. |
Priority Strategy 1: Hospital
Admissions Prevention through Increased Community Care Options:
Prevent unnecessary hospitalizations by providing patients with
better access to family physicians, specialists and other providers
and services in the community.
Priority Strategy 2: Post-Acute (hospital care) Alternatives:
Provide appropriate community and supportive care to enable
timely discharge of patients from hospital once the need for
acute medical care has ended.
Priority Strategy 4: Alternatives to Institutional Care:
Help elderly and disabled individuals avoid institutionalization
and remain as independent as possible in their own homes and
communities by increasing the range of supportive housing
environments and community care options, while reserving residential
institutions for patients with the most complex care needs.
Priority Strategy 5: Build the Foundation for Integrated
Care Networks:
b. Provide a continuum of services in each health authority
for mental health patients that better integrates primary,
secondary community and tertiary mental health care and is
integrated with the larger care networks.
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Provide greater choice of living
options for Home and Community Care. |
Priority Strategy 4: Alternatives
to Institutional Care: Help elderly and disabled individuals
avoid institutionalization and remain as independent as possible
in their own homes and communities by increasing the range of
supportive housing environments and community care options,
while reserving residential institutions for patients with the
most complex care needs. |
Enhance full-service family
practice to ensure delivery of a consistent level and quality
of coordinated medical and related services throughout the province. |
Priority Strategy 1: Hospital
Admissions Prevention through Increased Community Care Options:
Prevent unnecessary hospitalizations by providing patients with
better access to family physicians, specialists and other providers
and services in the community.
Priority Strategy 5: Build the Foundation for Integrated
Care Networks:
a. Connect physicians and other health care professionals
to diagnostic services, hospitals, and each other.
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Ensure delivery of a consistent
level and quality of education, health and social services throughout
the province. |
MOHP Strategy 2: Develop
provincial quality and access standards/guidelines for selected
services (e.g., appropriate service volumes required to ensure
safety and quality of service delivery).
MOHP Strategy 9: Lead the development of planning
guidelines that articulate best practices for service delivery
(End-of-life, Aboriginal health services and women's health
strategies)
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Implement and manage performance
based accountability agreements for publicly funded agencies
including health, education and social services. |
MOHS Strategy 8: Develop
an effective monitoring and evaluation framework for services
provided by Health Authorities and other system partners (e.g.,
health professions). |
Improve the prevention and
management of selected chronic diseases. |
Priority Strategy 7: Better
Care for People with Chronic Conditions: Increase the emphasis
on the effective management of chronic diseases (e.g., diabetes)
to prevent or slow disease progression. |
Ensure information is available
to assist individuals in making more informed decisions regarding
their personal and community health, education, fitness, safety
and health care needs. |
Priority Strategy 10: Enhancing
Self-Care and Self-Management: Support individuals' self-management
efforts to help healthy people stay healthy and allow people
with chronic conditions to better manage their condition. |
Provide supports and incentives
to enhance local responsiveness to community and family needs. |
MOHS Strategy 6: Align
incentives to facilitate the achievement of expectations (e.g.,
incentives to retain and recruit rural/remote physicians).
Priority Strategy 12: Service Quality Enhancement for
Rural and Smaller Communities: Consolidate services where
necessary to ensure there is a critical mass of expertise
to deliver services safely, cost-effectively and at a high
quality.
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Provide supports and incentives
to engage in programs for health promotion and prevention of
racism and violence. |
MOHP Strategy 4: Protect
public health by articulating expectations for core public health
prevention and protection activities, including standards for
their delivery (e.g., food and water safety licensing).
MOHP Strategy 8: Influence public policy outside health
to address principle risk factors that underlie health outcomes
and drive health system costs (e.g., housing, economics, environment).
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Promote the development of
supports and services within aboriginal communities that address
their unique social and economic conditions. |
Priority Strategy 9: Improve
the Health Status of Aboriginal Peoples: Support initiatives
to improve Aboriginal health through the formalized participation
of Aboriginal people in the planning and delivery of health
care. |
Goal 3: Safe,
Healthy Communities and a Sustainable Environment |
Reduce impacts to surface and
groundwater through implementation of the amended Drinking
Water Protection Act and groundwater legislation. |
MOHP Strategy 4: Improve
the Health Status of Aboriginal Peoples: Protect public
health by articulating expectations for core public health prevention
and protection activities, including standards for their delivery
(e.g. food and water safety licensing).
Priority Strategy 11: Protection from Disease or Injury:
Protect public health by implementing core public health prevention
and protection programs (e.g. food and water safety programs,
immunization programs, falls)
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Sponsor a provincial strategy
that promotes physically active living through active schools,
active communities and organized sport. |
MOHP Strategy 4: Protect
public health by articulating expectations for core public health
prevention and protection activities, including standards for
their delivery (e.g., food and water safety licensing).
MOHP Strategy 8: Influence public policy outside health
to address principle risk factors that underlie health outcomes
and drive health system costs (e.g., housing, economics, environment).
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