After a year-long process of reviewing the relevant research, and holding consultations and meetings, the Committee developed four key recommendations and identified associated activities. These provide an effective framework for implementing interprofessional care:
- Building the foundation: creating a firm foundation upon which key interprofessional care activities can be implemented and sustained.
- Sharing the responsibility: sharing the responsibility for ensuring that interprofessional care strategies are effectively implemented among interested parties.
- Implementing systemic enablers: providing systems, processes, and tools that will allow interprofessional care to be taught, practised, and organized in a systemic way.
- Leading sustainable change: leading sustainable cultural change that recognizes the collaborative nature of interprofessional care and embraces it at all levels of the health care and educational systems.
To put the principles of the Blueprint into action, the provincial Interprofessional Care Strategic Implementation Committee (IPCSIC) was formed. The Committee guided two working groups—the Interprofessional Education Curriculum Working Group and the Core Competency Working Group. These Groups were tasked with implementing two key recommendations out of the report: defining and agreeing on core IPC competencies, and developing IPE curriculum models.