Joint position paper on rural surgery and operative delivery

• Published in: Canadian journal of rural medicine Vol. 20; no. 4; p. 129
• Main Authors: Iglesias, Stuart, Kornelsen, Jude, Woollard, Robert, Caron, Nadine, Warnock, Garth, Friesen, Randall, Miles, Peter, Vogt Haines, Victoria, Batchelor, Bret, Blake, Jenny, Mazowita, Garey, Wyman, Roy, Geller, Brian, de Klerk, Braam
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: India 22-09-2015
• Subjects: Canada; Cesarean Section - standards; Community Networks; Delivery, Obstetric - standards; Family Practice; Female; General Surgery - education; General Surgery - standards; Gynecology - education; Gynecology - standards; Health Planning; Health Policy; Health Services Accessibility; Health Services Needs and Demand; Humans; Maternal Health Services - standards; Obstetrics - education; Obstetrics - standards; Patient Safety; Physicians - supply & distribution; Pregnancy; Program Evaluation; Rural Health; Rural Health Services - standards; Societies, Medical; Surgical Procedures, Operative - standards; Workforce
• ISSN: 1488-237X

Our professional organizations have prepared this paper as part of an integrated, multidisciplinary plan to ensure the availability of well-trained practitioner teams to sustain safe, effective and high-quality rural surgical and operative delivery services. Without these robust local (or nearby) surgical services, sustaining rural maternity care is much more difficult. This paper describes the "network model" as a health human resources solution to meet the surgical needs, including operative delivery, of rural residents; outlines necessary policy directions for achieving this solution; and poses a series of enabling recommendations.