[Future of interprofessional primary care in time of crisis]

Abstract

The world is facing a crisis with several dimensions, economical, moral, social, epidemiological and scientific. This crisis is likely to have an impact on organisation of Primary Care, and on interprofessional collaboration. Several issues are raised by this situation: who will arbitrate rationalisation or rationing of care? Which professions will be called upon to collaborate? How will professionals take side between justice based on redistribution, and justice based on recognition? What will be the cost of reorganizing the work of the various professionals, particularly regarding the modification of the range of skills? How will collaboration among professionals be organized, vertically or horizontally? How will research evolve? This paper tries to reflect on this issues.