Preamble to AMA Agreement 2022-26
The 2022-26 AMA Agreement is a package of documents. The following preamble statement articulates the broad range of mutual interests and issues that are addressed through various provisions in the agreement:
WHEREAS the AMA and AH recognize the importance of a strong, trusted relationship and partnership between the Government of Alberta and Physicians to advance patient care;
AND WHEREAS, the AMA and AH have a long history of cooperation and collaboration and a range of shared interests, including but not limited to:
(a) High quality patient care
(b) Patient care in rural and remote areas
(c) Primary health care
(d) Attraction and retention of physicians
(e) A financially sustainable health system
(f) Certainty and stability in the health system and health system expenditures
(g) Integration of physicians’ electronic medical records within patients’ overarching electronic health records
(h) Physician compensation modernization and reform
(i) Transparent and informed decision making and;
(j) Equitable compensation for all types of physicians
AND WHEREAS, the Minister recognizes the leadership and commitment of physicians in responding to COVID-19;
AND WHEREAS, the Act requires the Minister to recognize the AMA as the exclusive representative of physicians on compensation matters (as “compensation matters” is defined *in Section 40.1 of the Act) and as a representative of physicians on health matters that touch and concern physicians;
AND WHEREAS, the Act requires the Minister to engage the AMA in good faith and consider the AMA’s representations on matters for which the AMA represents physicians;
AND WHEREAS, it is in the parties’ mutual interests that physicians have physician support programs to support them in their practice;
AND WHEREAS, AH and AMA have reached an agreement;
NOW THERFORE, in consideration of the terms and conditions set out below , AH and the AMA agree as follows;
