Key Success Factors
and Pitfalls

Factors to Ensure Success

Adequate Remuneration and Incentives

To ensure continuity and comprehensiveness in the delivery of primary care, there must be adequate remuneration and incentives to compensate family physicians. (See module on Remuneration.) Remuneration and incentives should be designed to lead to continuous quality improvement in care. In addition to basic remuneration for clinical services, non-clinical activities should be rewarded to ensure the provision of ongoing high quality patient care. Non-clinical activities include:

• Continuing medical education / professional development
• Practice reviews or outcome analyses
• Team-building exercises
• Research
• Teaching

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• Overview
• Necessary Elements for Continuity & Comprehensiveness
• Key Success Factors and Pitfalls
  1. Factors to Ensure Success
     • Adequate Remuneration and Incentives
     • Adequate Infrastructure Support
     • Appropriate Support for Interdisciplinary Care
     • Cooperative Partnerships with Government
     • Linking Family Physicians & Other Physicians, Providers and Patients
  2. Factors that Hinder
• Other Challenges to Continuity & Comprehensiveness
• Chronic Disease Prevention and Management
• Other Resources
• Appendix 1: Clinical Guides
• Appendix 2: Presentations Related to Primary Care Meetings
• Appendix 3: Advanced/Open Access Scheduling in Family Practice
• Appendix 4: Infection Control
• Appendix 5: Best Advice – Panel Size
• Appendix 6: Group Billing Practices by Province/Territory in Canada