By breaking down walls be­tween family physicians and specialists, the Shared Care Committee and its programs have reduced the barriers that have isolated physicians in both complex urban centres and smaller rural communities. The result is better care to patients.
"Over the past few decades, we lost the ability to work together in a clear and understood fashion where everyone knew who was doing what, and the patient was clear on who was doing what," says Dr Gary Mazowita, a family doctor with Providence Health Care and family practice lead for the Shared Care Referral Project. "The aim of Shared Care initiatives is to recapture some of the things we had in the past with the new understanding of measured outcomes and patients as partners."
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