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Canadian Family Physician | Le Médecin de famille canadien }Vol 64: AUGUST | AOÛT 2018

C U M U L A T I V E P R O F I L E COLLEGE

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COLLÈGE

The urgency of creating a primary care CIHR institute

Francine Lemire MDCM CCFP FCFP CAE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Dear Colleagues,

Data abound regarding the role of a strong primary care system in improving population outcomes and the impor- tance of contributions by family physicians.1,2 According to reports presenting Commonwealth Fund survey results, Canadian seniors are more likely than those of other nations to indicate that their primary care providers adopt a person-centred approach to their care and facilitate navigation in the health care system when referrals are required3; and Canadian adults rate the care they receive from their family doctor’s practice as considerably above average.4 Yet we know that Canada lags behind other countries when it comes to timely access to care, team- based care, and communication between health care pro- viders themselves and with their patients.4 We need data and research to better understand this situation, inform a transformational agenda, and assess the effect of innova- tion in the organization and delivery of primary care.

When the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) was frst created, the CFPC advocated for an institute dedi- cated to primary care research.5 This did not materialize.

At that time, CIHR believed that research based on pri- mary care and community health care should be part of the research agendas of the other 13 institutes. We now face a situation where primary care research is propor- tionately underrepresented by CIHR and underfunded.

To be fair, CIHR has directed time-limited, strategic research funding to primary care, particularly in the past 6 years or so. Although the primary care share of CIHR funding has increased over the past 15 years, total pri- mary care research funding represented only 2% to 3% of total CIHR funding between 2014 and 2017. Its funding for community health care research has been fat over the past 15 years, did not exceed 0.2% of the CIHR total, and peaked at 0.8% of the total in 2016-2017. However, these strategic funding commitments are scheduled to decrease over the next few years and end in 2022-2023.6

We believe that one of the main reasons for such a low level of funding relates to limited primary and com- munity health care presence on CIHR’s governing council, grant review panels, and institute advisory boards (pri- mary health care researchers are currently represented on only 3 of the 13 institute advisory boards). What is clear is that CIHR’s current approach to supporting pri- mary care and community health care research has not been successful.

Cet article se trouve aussi en français à la page 623.

I want to iterate that the CFPC recognizes the impor- tance of basic science research and the importance of institution-based research. This said, family doctors know that the patients they care for might have more com- plex needs than those included in interventional, disease- specifc studies. We need to be more deliberate in sup- porting the generation of high-quality evidence to inform policy and practice. This absolutely requires investments in primary care and community health care research.

The CFPC has prepared a proposal for a CIHR Institute of Integrated Primary and Community Health Care; this internal document outlines immediate steps to address some of the challenges identifed and to show that CIHR understands and is committed to this vital component of our health care system: develop a sustainable infra- structure for practice-based research networks and pri- mary health care data collection, integration, and access;

renew funding and support new primary and community health care strategic funding initiatives to address prior- ity issues; and provide systematic tracking of primary and community health care submissions, success rates, and funding in the CIHR open grants competitions. Finally, although a robust cadre of highly productive, interna- tionally acclaimed primary and community health care researchers has emerged in the past decade, develop- ment of an ongoing primary and community health care research training and career support strategy is critical.

We congratulate Dr Michael Strong on his appointment as CIHR President. We are aware of CIHR’s intent to revisit future directions, and of the reality that this will be accom- panied by legislative requirements. We also recognize the many pressures facing CIHR. This said, we need an insti- tute dedicated to primary and community health care within CIHR. We are pleased that the Canadian Nurses Association, the Canadian Home Care Association, and the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada are considering joining us in this advocacy. Stay tuned for more developments.

Acknowledgment

I thank José Pereira, Brian Hutchison, Artem Safarov, and Deirdre Snelgrove for their assistance with this article.

References

1. Gulliford MC. Availability of primary care doctors and population health in England: is there an as- sociation? J Public Health Med 2002;24(4):252-4.

2. Glazier RH, Moineddin R, Agha MM, Zagorski B, Hall R, Manuel DG, et al. The impact of not having a primary care physician among people with chronic conditions. Toronto, ON: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Studies; 2008.

3. CIHI. How Canada compares: results from the Commonwealth Fund’s 2017 International Health Policy Survey of Seniors. Ottawa, ON: CIHI; 2018.

4. CIHI. How Canada compares: results from the Commonwealth Fund’s 2016 International Health Policy Survey of Adults in 11 Countries. Ottawa, ON: CIHI; 2017.

5. Gutkin C. Research and the family doctor. Can Fam Physician 1999;45:1628 (Eng), 1627, 1626 (Fr).

6. Canadian Institutes of Health Research [website]. Funding decisions database. Ottawa, ON:

Government of Canada; 2018. Available from: http://webapps.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/decisions/p/main.

html?lang=en. Accessed 2018 Jul 11.

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