Primary Care Renewal Introduction
Primary Care Renewal
An outstanding 3-days workshop:
- The 3 Challenges of the next decade (the date of the session has not been scheduled yet)
- A new political way for primary care management (the date of the session has not been scheduled yet)
Jean-Pierre Fourcade, Senator
How to define the collaborative strategies about primary care: a new way forward with participative debates between patients, providers, politicians and administration.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced in January the launch of 250 Patient-Centered Medical Homes before 2013 in order to support the revitalization of under-medicalized areas through primary care. This will responds to both political and professional concerns, particularly from the new generations of GP whose way of practising have been radically disrupted over the last ten years.
But is the PCMH the only way to enhance primary care services? Certainly not. Although there are some great examples of success, resource mobilization is not the only solution. There are as many solutions as there are geographical scales of territory. But all the solutions must have one goal: to adhere to a real public policy.
The aim of this 3-days workshop is straight: one may question the recent evolution of territory and space, make sense of these concepts and by the way elaborate a strong definition for a plan of action through cross dialogue between patients, health care providers, scientists and politicians.
First of all, what are we dealing with?
- The second step will underline the challenges of primary care medicine:
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- the challenges to reduce inequalities,
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- the challenges to reduce the costs of Public Health sector,
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- the challenges to rise efficiency and quality upon population health.
- The outcome. This third day will be the synthesis of the whole contributors’ positions in order to establish an operational policy for all the primary care stakeholders, wherever they are, at lower cost.
