Grant: SPOR Network in Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovations -British Columbia

Through a confluence of factors, BC is ready to begin a new phase in transforming its health care system. The goal with the BC SPOR Network is to enable innovation and support government, health authorities, and health professions in introducing innovation to improve the delivery of BC's health care services. Our preliminary vision for this is that it will enable the 1) achievement of optimal health outcomes for residents of BC, particularly for those with complex care needs across the life course and 2) greater efficiency of the health care system by bringing together knowledge users (KUs), patients and researchers so they can learn from each other, collectively generate new knowledge, and chart a common future. We share a common commitment to quality, clearly articulated by the US Institute of Medicine in its classic report Crossing the Quality Chasm. This report defined eight dimensions of quality, all of which are relevant to our work; care should be accessible, person-centred, safe, effective, efficient, equitable, coordinated, and population health oriented. Specific objectives of the BC SPOR Network are: a) Development of systems and processes to measure health outcomes; b) Knowledge Generation through Observation (Descriptive work) and Experimentation (Intervention work); c) Knowledge Translation and Exchange; and d) Development and implementation of processes for the spread of integrated health service delivery We will use a provincial consultative process that includes deliberative dialogues and small group consultations. At the end of the Network development process, researchers, knowledge users, patients and communities will have outlined priority actions and areas for a BC SPOR Network in primary and integrated health care innovations.