Overview
The Modernizing Alberta’s Primary Health Care System (MAPS) initiative was established to strengthen primary health care in Alberta and ensure all Albertans have access to timely, appropriate primary health care services.
The Modernizing Alberta's Primary Health Care System Implementation Plan focuses on 7 key focus areas of action to transform the current primary health care system. Accomplishing these goals will help stabilize and strengthen Alberta’s primary health care system.
The MAPS 2-Year Implementation Plan was informed by recommendations from an Indigenous Panel, International Expert Panel and a Strategic Advisory Panel.
Implementation plan
The MAPS – 2-Year Implementation Plan will serve as the guidepost for action to strengthen primary health care in Alberta over the next 2 years. It outlines a series of actions as part of government’s long-term commitment to modernize the province's primary health care system.
Read the MAPS final reports.
MAPS implementation focuses on 7 key focus areas:
- Transforming governance, strengthening and aligning accountabilities
- Evolving patients’ medical homes within an integrated health neighbourhood
- Enabling the primary health care workforce to improve health outcomes
- Building capacity in quality, safety and innovation
- Digitally enabling primary health care
- Significantly investing in primary health care
- Addressing Indigenous racism
These focus areas are critical to achieving the MAPS vision. Each area requires specific actions for MAPS to be fully implemented over the next 10 years.
A dedicated Indigenous Primary Health Care Implementation Plan has been developed. It will help Alberta achieve a health system that delivers access to culturally safe, quality care that improves life-expectancy and the health and wellbeing of First Nation, Métis and Inuit Peoples, families and communities.
We will continue to work with our partners, including Indigenous communities, through targeted engagement as this work continues.
Actions underway
These actions address urgent issues and give Albertans more access to family doctors and the health professionals they need.
Final reports
The MAPS Strategic Advisory Panel final report contains 11 recommendations to refocus the system around primary health care with an emphasis on:
- access to team-based care
- integration between primary health care and community care
- a foundation of a coordinated and accountable primary health care system
The Indigenous Advisory Panel final report contains 22 recommendations under 5 themes:
- improve health equity for Indigenous Peoples
- address Indigenous racism in health care
- build culturally safer primary health care and an Indigenous workforce
- create system innovation and support community capacity
- Indigenous ownership, stewardship, design and delivery of health care services