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Spotlight Primary Care Excellence – AFHTO Bright Lights Awards Nominations Now Open!
The AFHTO Bright Lights Awards Are Here and Bigger Than Ever!
AFHTO’s Bright Lights Awards celebrate the outstanding achievements and contributions that help advance team-based primary care in Ontario. This year, we’ve expanded our awards to recognize MORE of our members.
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Thank you for submitting your abstracts!
We received over 125 abstracts for the AFHTO’s The Power of Primary Care Conference. Thank you to all those who applied!
A confirmation email has been sent to the contact person for each abstract.
If you are part of a group that has prepared a submission, please ensure your group contact has received the email with the subject: “Thank you for your AFHTO 2025 Conference Submission!”. (Please have them check their junk mail as well.)
Got a bold idea? Submit your “Wild Card” abstract for AFHTO’s 2025 Conference by June 16!
Wild cards welcome to AFHTO 2025 Power of Primary Care Conference
Every year we receive brilliant abstracts that defy categorization, and we welcome them. That’s why we created the Wild Card category under the conference theme: Meeting Needs, Advancing Equity: The Power of Comprehensive, Patient-Partnered Care.
Instead of shoehorning them into a theme that doesn’t quite fit, and suffering by comparison, now wild cards can show up as their unique selves.
OurCare Survey - help us understand the gaps in primary care
Access to basic health care is a struggle for millions of people in Canada, with over 1 in 5 unable to find a family doctor.
The OurCare Survey, led by Dr. Tara Kiran and the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, aims to change that. The survey is being conducted in partnership with the Canadian Medical Association.
Call for abstracts – AFHTO’s The Power of Primary Care
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS NOW OPEN
This is more than a showcase. It’s a design session for the future.
Ontario’s primary care system is under a spotlight — and finally, under serious consideration. Investments are coming. Expectations are rising. And the window to shape what's next is wide open.
Ingersoll NPLC and Thamesvalley FHT improve access for unattached patients
Sentinel Review published an article on May 15, 2025
By Jacob Robinson
The new Roulston's Pharmacy location in Tillsonburg has been selected to house the Oxford Ontario Health Team's unattached care clinic.
The clinic -- located at 671 Broadway St, Unit 112 -- is designed to support residents without access or unattached to a family doctor or nurse practitioner.
AFHTO welcomes important step toward achieving team-based primary care for all Ontarians
April 11, 2025
The Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario (AFHTO) congratulates the Ministry of Health on yesterday’s important step toward achieving team-based primary care for everyone in the province.
Minister of Health Sylvia Jones helps celebrate five years of RC VTAC with Petawawa Centennial FHT
County of Renfrew published an article on Mar 31, 2025
A made-in-Renfrew-County solution to address health-care needs in response to COVID-19, launched mere days after the declaration of the global pandemic, has marked its fifth anniversary as it continues to evolve to provide impactful service for residents who do not have access to primary care.
Elliot Lake Family Health Team to host monthly mammogram bus
Elliott Lake Today published an article on Mar 20, 2025
By Lisa Rene-de-Cotret
The Elliot Lake Family Health Team (ELFHT) is excited to announce a new initiative focused on enhancing women’s health in our community.
On March 24, 2025, a designated mammogram bus will leave for Sudbury to offer crucial breast cancer screening services to ten local residents.