Dr. Jude Kornelsen says systemic issues hinder effectiveness of B.C.'s health authorities.
Dr. Jude Kornelsen is looking to change the way health authorities in B.C. operate in rural settings.
Kornelsen said she understands the challenges facing health authorities – which she said are “between a rock and a hard place” – but argued that the systems they have put in place have been a major cause of the issues they face today. “But it’s a product of how we’ve set up the system right now and our lack of attention to midwifery, but also to nurses.”
“We need way more transparency in reporting and decision-making so decisions don’t just come from above and nobody understands why,” she said. “But then just exacerbated because we weren’t doing public forums. The decision-makers weren’t doing any outreach. “For example, to open a primary care clinic in their community, the health authority bureaucracy was crippling.” But Kornelsen said more emphasis needs to be placed on ensuring medical staff are not “siloed” into separate groups, but work as one cohesive unit where physicians are aided by specialists. “You can’t just put a group of people together and say, ‘There we go, we’ve got a team.’ It doesn’t work like that. You have to do team development.
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