Budget 2003 -- Government of British Columbia.
         
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Minister's Letter  
Accountability Statements  
Introduction  
Highlights and Changes from Previous Plan  
Strategic Context  
Ministry Goals  
Core Businesses  
Objectives, Strategies, Performance Measures and Targets  
Consistency with Government Strategic Plan  
Resource Summary  
Summary of Related Planning Processes  
Appendix A: Comparison of Strategies in 2002/03 – 2004/05 and 2003/04 – 2005/06 Service Plans  
Appendix B: Comparison of Performance Measures in 2002/03 – 2004/05 and 2003/04 – 2005/06 Service Plans  
Appendix C: Link between Health System Goals and Core Business Objectives  

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2003/04 – 2005/06 SERVICE PLAN
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Consistency with Government
Strategic Plan

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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).

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)

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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