PrintThe seven Program Groupings are Advanced Medicine & Surgery, Community & Population Health, Heart & Circulation, Musculoskeletal Health & Arthritis, Neural & Sensory Sciences, Oncology & Blood Disorders, and Transplantation. Within each Program Grouping there are smaller sub-groups called Program Elements. For example, within the Heart & Circulation Program Grouping, Cardiovascular Surgery is a Program Element. It is the Program Elements within the Program Groupings that the Planning and Priorities Council (PPC) has recently been evaluating to assign activity targets. The need to develop activity targets is an essential component in long-term planning since UHN cannot have clinical growth in everything it does. UHN does not have the space, staff or money to grow all the Program Elements within its Program Groupings.
The process of recommending activity targets included two main parts:
- The Program Groupings submitted workbooks for each Program Element outlining their projections for clinical growth over the next five years.
- The workbooks were evaluated by PPC to determine which Program Elements UHN should grow, which UHN should maintain at current volumes and which UHN should reduce by the year 2006. The criteria that PPC used in the evaluations are outlined in the attachment to this memo.
Many points of view were brought to the table for discussion prior to the final decisions on the recommended Growth Categories for the Program Elements and this contributed to a fair and balanced process.
