Primary Focus
About this programme
Better health and participation thanks to well-organised local care facilities
Local care is convenient for users. And it is even better if we can prevent demand for care due to illness from arising in the first place, by responding at an early stage to specific health risks in the local population. This requires more collaboration between the classic fields of disease prevention, health care and social welfare, and means care providers must be alert to new opportunities. In other words, what is needed is entrepreneurship.
The field of primary health care currently consists largely of relatively small work units focused on their own specialisation. To meet the challenges of the future, these small units must join forces as a matter of urgency. The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport has therefore commissioned an incentive programme designed to enhance the organisation and the innovative capacity of local care services.
Goal
The ‘Primary focus’ programme is designed to help strengthen the organisation of primary health care through innovation and entrepreneurship. This should ensure that, in future, local care is based more on the health status and demand for care in the local population. Prevention and curative occupational health services are also explicitly included. The programme will focus particularly on a number of specific groups of diagnoses: diabetes, heart failure, cardiovascular risk management, COPD, psychological disorders and musculoskeletal conditions in the elderly.
The programme should stimulate:
- further improvements in existing collaboration
- new collaboration
- enhancement of our knowledge of collaboration in primary health care (effectiveness, efficiency, genesis, preconditions)
- improved access to knowledge and experience for a broad target audience