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Tungasuvvingat Inuit FHT wins Innovation in Public Health and Primary Health Care Award
The Tungasuvvingat Inuit Family Health Team (TIFHT) was honoured with this award at a the "Prevent More to Treat Less" conference, jointly sponsored by the Association of Ontario Health Centres and the Association of Local Public Health Agencies, together with a range of partners including AFHTO. Since March 2011 TIFHT has provided Primary Health care services to Ottawa’s Inuit population.
Nominations to the AFHTO Board of Directors are open until July 14
Dear fellow AFHTO members: Are you interested in serving on the AFHTO board of directors? The Governance Committee of AFHTO’s board invites anyone who works within an AFHTO member organization to apply. Please share this call for nominations with all who work in your team. FIVE people are to be elected for a 3-year term on the 14-member AFHTO board. The AFHTO by-laws call for balanced representation on the board to include the various forms of governance, the regions of the province, and the mix of the professions working within FHTs, NPLCs and other interprofessional models.
AFHTO 2014 “Bright Light” Awards nominations open
Nominations now closed. Thank you to all who submitted nominations. Confirmation emails will be sent by end of day Wednesday, August 13 2014. If you have submitted a nomination and have not received a confirmation email by then, please contact us at info@afhto.ca.
Registration for the AFHTO 2014 Conference is now live!
Takes place on Wednesday, October 15 and Thursday, October 16 at the Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto. Click here for more information on the conference. We look forward to seeing you!
AFHTO 2014 Conference: Thank you for submitting abstracts!
Over 150 submissions were received for concurrent session and poster presentations at the AFHTO 2014 Conference. Thank you to all those who applied!
RNAO invitation to host "Best Practice Champions for Smoke-Free Pregnancies" Workshops
Message forwarded on behalf of RNAO:
RNAO is excited to announce a new project on smoking cessation for pre and post natal women and their families as part of their Smoking Cessation Initiative. We will be hosting one-day ‘Best Practice Champions for Smoke-Free Pregnancies’ workshops across the province at no cost to participants within Ontario.
AFHTO 2014 Conference: One week left to submit a presentation or poster abstract (May 12)
Take advantage of this opportunity to share your knowledge and experience in advancing patient-centred care!
Due date for all concurrent session and poster abstracts is May 12 at 9:00 AM
Recruitment, retention and compensation issues: advocacy update
AFHTO, AOHC and NPAO will be meeting with the Premier’s staff later this week in our continuing advocacy for sufficient funding to enable interprofessional primary care organizations to recruit and retain the staff needed to care for patients. So far we have had positive meetings with the political staff in the offices of the Minister of Health and Minister of Finance -- all seem to understand the situation and see our request as ‘reasonable’. The challenge of course, is finding funds in the face of many competing needs and demands.
The crisis in primary care is building.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Family Health Teams in Ontario
Ten years ago the concept of “Family Health Teams” was first announced. This anniversary follows a week in which two important studies have published evidence of the value of interprofessional collaboration in Ontario’s Family Health Teams, and in interprofessional primary care models across Canada.