What will a refocused health care system mean for you?
Right now, the system gets in the way of health care delivery. It is complex and uncoordinated, resulting in unacceptable wait times, service disruptions and challenges accessing primary care.
What a refocused system means for you:
- timely access to a primary health care practitioner
- shorter wait times for surgery and at the ER
- consistent access to continuing care
- expanded access to mental health and addiction treatment
We need to get you the right care when and where you need it.
To do this, we’re refocusing health care to create a more effective, unified system that prioritizes patients and empowers frontline health care professionals to support Albertans for generations to come.
What this means for your health care
A refocused health care system will lead to reduced wait times, improved access to health care services and better health outcomes long term for all Albertans.
No matter where you live in the province, we are working on solutions to address rural and urban health challenges.
These changes will put patients first in every health care decision.
What this means for you as a health care professional
You move mountains every day for your patients, residents and clients, and you deserve a health care system that supports you in delivering the highest-quality health care.
A refocused health care system will better support you, prioritize your well-being and leverage your experiences to enhance health care for all Albertans.
News
January 9, 2025
Refocused health care: Continuing the conversation
Albertans are invited to share their feedback as work continues to refocus and improve the province’s health care system.
November 18, 2024
Ensuring a successfully refocused health system
Alberta’s government continues to make progress refocusing the health care system to ensure all Albertans get the care they need.
October 15, 2024
Leading primary care into the future
Primary Care Alberta, the new provincial health agency overseeing and coordinating the delivery of primary health care services, will become operational later this fall.
Related info
Legislation
- Health System Refocus Legislative Amendments Fact Sheet (November 1, 2024)
Primary care
Continuing care
Mental health and addiction
Related news
Primary care
- Nurse practitioners expand primary care access (November 20, 2024)
- Leading primary care into the future (October 15, 2024)
- Nurse practitioners to help strengthen primary care (April 25, 2024)
Continuing care
- Continuing care: Ministers LaGrange and Nixon (October 16, 2024)
- The right care when and where Albertans need it (March 14, 2024)
Acute care
- Ensuring a successfully refocused health system (November 18, 2024)
- Improving health care in rural and remote Alberta (October 3, 2024)
- Timely care when and where it’s needed (April 11, 2024)
Mental health and addiction
- Recovery Alberta to begin operations Sept. 1 (August 30, 2024)
- Next steps in refocused mental health, addiction care (June 11, 2024)