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Key Health Policy Improvement Strategies for Better Patient-Centre Cared…
Key Health Policy Improvement Strategies for Better Patient-Centre Cared Using Picker’s 8 Principles (National Level)
1. Respect
- Increasing education surrounding different cultural norms in order to recognize patients values and preferences. The government should broaden the university and educational curriculum so that future healthcare workers understand that culture is dynamic.
- Integrating culturally respectful approaches and principles into the organization and delivery of all services and the culture of care through policy implementation (Government of Canada, 2020)
- Adopting policies blending conventional and traditional medicine.
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4. Physical Comfort
- Enable virtual stepped care models for primary and specialist pain care (Government of Canada, 2020).
- Increase access to self-management tools and resources (i.e. information, services, and etc.).
- Support epidemiological work on pain prevalence and post viral pain (Government of Canada, 2020).
- Implement centralized and interdisciplinary assessment, intake, and care.
- Establish an integrated and common understanding of pain and minimum data collection standards.
- Development of chronic pain registries gathering information and details on outcomes related to chronic pain from clinics across Canada based on established minimum datasets (Government of Canada, 2020)
8. Access to Care
- Increase governmental funding in order to better infrastructure (i.e., building new hospitals and clinics),
- Renovating older buildings and investing in new machines (i.e. diagnostic imaging machines and etc.) to replace anything that is not working to enable for a more effective use of healthcare material and be able to provide for more patients.
- Address physician shortages to decrease patient wait-times and to also increase access. The federal government should increase funding for residency and fellowship training in the medical field that would allow for most positions to be open.
- Addressing the need of having better transportation services to healthcare facilities.
- Developing a universial pharmacare system so patients are able to efficiently use healthcare services knowing that they will be able to afford medications that will be prescribed to them.
- Increase funding of e-referrals and implementing a standardized system to decrease patient wait-times (Mohammed et al., 2020).
- Adopting new technological innovations—such as mobile health apps, physiologic sensors, and telemedicine—which could increase access to care and reduce administrative burdens and wait-times (Flier & Rhoads, 2018).
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5. Emotional Support
- Establish a support/educational program in healthcare systems that patients can access to help eliminate worry and anxiety associated with the medical illness and treatment by increasing their knowledge.
- Implement a standardized assessment to assess a patients level of anxiety associated with the illness.
- Mandatory referral to a therapist or councilor for those who showed signs of anxiety in relation to their illness. In other words, create an accessible route of help for patients, and they decide if they want to attend.
Reference
Mohammed HT, Payson L-A, Alarakhia M (2020) The impact of integrating electronic referral within a musculoskeletal model of care on wait time to receive orthopedic care in Ontario. PLoS ONE 15(11): e0241624. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241624
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