The Changing Face of Healthcare Delivery: Making Room for Other Disciplines

Each of canada's provinces and territories needs to modernize its basket of insured health services to reflect a broader conceptualization of healthcare. The narrow focus on hospital and physician services excludes multidisciplinary care models, such as those reflected by Family Health Teams in Ontario, Groupe de médecine de famille in Québec and primary care networks in Alberta. In these models, a wider range of services and supports is being used to respond to changing demographics and patterns of morbidity, and whose residents' care needs include social workers, mental health providers, personal support workers and dietitians.