Access to Care: Care Close to Home

with

Dr. Fiona McDonald

• Associate Professor, School of Law at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University

Discussion questions:

1. What stood out the most to you in this discussion about care close to home?  

• Why? 

2. What does care close to home mean to you?  

• What values do you associate with care close to home? 

3. In her outline of the barriers associated with care close to home, Fiona McDonald describes aspects of healthcare that represent a barrier to care close to home including:  

• General medicine is valued less than specialty medicine  

•   Individual care providers may be reluctant to practice in rural areas due to concerns about work-life balance.  

4. Do you agree that these are significant barriers?   

• What are some of the things that may help address these and other barriers?  

Resources:  

Moving care closer to home: three unanswered questions  – Danielle Jefferies, Blog post published September 20^th, 2023:

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/2023/09/moving- care-closer-home-three-unanswered-questions  

Rethinking Rural Health Ethics – C Simpson and F McDonald (Springer 2017) http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319608099