Reforming Primary Health Care: A Nursing Perspective. Contributing to health care reform, issues and challenges.

The aim of this report as outlined in the commissioning brief is three fold:

• “To describe the role of the nurse workforce in the development and

implementation of primary health care reform at supra-national, national and

local levels.

• To critically review the evidence base and identify, from a nursing workforce

perspective, key factors in the practice environment which act to inhibit the

development of PHC reform or, conversely, have significant potential to

facilitate/strengthen it.

• To develop a clearly argued, evidence-based policy brief, including illustrative

case study examples, which articulates the important contribution that nurses

can make in future health sector reform focused on primary care

development/enhancement and the delivery of health equity goals, and

contributes to the ongoing dialogue about key drivers in achieving a paradigm

shift to primary health care.”