The Principles and Enabling Factors Guiding Paramedicine in Canada: A Community-Based Health System document on behalf of the Paramedic Chiefs of Canada (2023) has outlined that the healthcare system is under significant strain, and that paramedicine systems are struggling to maintain service levels as transfer-of-care delays in emergency departments lengthen and call volumes grow. The present state of paramedicine requires urgent changes to meet the needs of their communities, and the healthcare system.
The report goes on to say that paramedic's community focus and its position as a mobile health service has led governments to increasingly call upon the profession to contribute. With the government asking for paramedicine contribution, paramedicine needs to examine its own structures, activities and capacities through a renewed vision which includes principles and enabling factors such as:
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