Canada can learn lessons to inform policy on primary care from OECD countries like the
United Kingdom, Norway, Netherlands and Finland where more than 95% of the population …

Despite an early start in the transformation of its health system toward a primary care
infrastructure, Canada has not kept pace in the production of knowledge that is needed to …

AIMS: New Zealand has a mixed public–private funded primary care system. In the last
decade, considerable effort has gone into reducing the financial barriers to primary care …

• Primary care in Canada is in crisis; 4.6 million people did not have a regular family
physician or primary care clinician before the COVID-19 pandemic and the situation is …

Recent reforms in Australia, England, and the Netherlands have sought to enhance the
quality and accessibility of primary care. Quality improvement strategies include …

The past decade has been marked by a global awaken-ing to the important contribution
primary care makes to better health outcomes. Research clearly shows that the better the …

Primary care is now acknowledged to be a foundation of effective, sustainable health care
for populations, with favorable effects on access to care, comprehensiveness, continuity …

Ongoing primary care reform in Canada is in part a response to concerns that Canadians
lack timely access to a regular source of primary care. While the supply of general practice …

Patients' relationships with, and affiliation to, primary care physicians can influence patients'
care experience, continuity of care and health outcomes. Many Canadian provinces are …

Primary care can potentially make an important contribution to improving health system
performance. However, Canada does not fare as well as other developed countries in terms …