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Introduction
Primary health care includes all the services in your community that support the day-to-day health needs of you and your family through every stage of life.
We are taking action to strengthen and improve the primary health care system across the province, so everyone has access to a primary health care provider, no matter where we live.
Modernizing primary health care
Alberta’s actions through the Modernizing Alberta’s Primary Health Care System (MAPS) initiative to strengthen the health system and ensure we all have access to timely and appropriate primary health care.
Tracking progress
Follow the actions we are taking and progress we are making to implement recommendations from the MAPS initiative.
About primary health care
Primary health care focuses on wellness and connecting with social supports that influence your health status, such as housing, family and community services.
News
- Nurse practitioners expand primary care access (November 20, 2024)
- Strengthening primary health care across Alberta (November 5, 2024)
- Nurse practitioners to help strengthen primary care | Les infirmières et infirmiers praticiens contribueront à renforcer les soins primaires (April 25, 2024)
- Modernizing how family doctors are paid in Alberta (April 17, 2024)
- Stabilizing Alberta’s primary health care system (April 4, 2024)
- Helping primary care providers support patients (February 8, 2024)
- New funding to stabilize primary health care (December 21, 2023)
- Strengthening primary care with nurse practitioners (November 22, 2023)
- Strengthening health care: A collaborative effort (October 24, 2023)
- Strengthening health care: Improving access for all (October 18, 2023)
- MAPS final reports: Statement from Minister Copping (April 28, 2023)
- Record investment in Alberta’s primary health care (February 21, 2023)
- Modernizing primary health care (September 23, 2022)