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AFHTO 2012 Conference: Call for Presentation Submissions
Share your knowledge and experience with your peers in Family Health Teams to "Demonstrate and Celebrate the Value of Family Health Teams".
The conference takes place October 16 and 17, 2012 at the Toronto Hilton
Submit an abstract
Click here to access the online form for submission of an abstract for a workshop, oral presentation, or poster. Timeline:- Deadline for submission: May 25, 2012
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AFHTO 2012 Conference: Call for Program Chairs and Working Groups
The AFHTO 2012 Conference is being developed around a set of themes that, individually and in combination, “Demonstrating and Celebrating the Value of Family Health Teams.” Click here to see the themes and their descriptions.
Thank you to all of our Program Working Group members who have offered their time to develop the conference program!
Quality Planning – accelerating Queen’s FHT’s ability to meet targets
The Queen’s Family Health Team (QFHT), an academic teaching clinic with 22 family physicians, 20 nursing and allied health members and 50+ family medicine residents rotating through the clinic, embarked on a quality improvement process in 2008.
QFHT has established a Quality Plan and framework to systematically improve quality across the team.
The team has met or exceeded the provincial targets set for:
Strengthening Primary Care in Ontario: Reports are now available
The Government of Ontario’s recently released Action Plan for Health Care puts a strong emphasis on primary care, placing “Family Health Care at the Centre of the System”.
AFHTO welcomes Ontario’s focus on family and community care
Primary care is fundamental to the health of patients and our health system. Family Health Teams have been working hard to innovate, to improve care, and from that, to improve health. For this reason, AFHTO is pleased to see the Ontario Government is placing “Family Health Care at the Centre of the System”.
AFHTO response to Globe and Mail comment about FHTs
On January 17, Globe and Mail columnist Adam Radwanski wrote about the upcoming MOHLTC-OMA negotiations, focusing on costs and value for money (echoing the Auditor General of Ontario’s report). Unfortunately he used the term “family health team” when he was refering to physicians in capitated models in his statement, “The province will continue trying to get more family doctors away from fee-for-service.
Season’s Greetings
All the best for the holidays and throughout the new year! Please note our office is closed, and will re-open on Monday, January 9, 2012.
Progress in developing AFHTO’s infrastructure
AFHTO is pleased to announce that it will soon reach another of its objectives from the 2011-13 Strategic Plan – to have a full-time Executive Director, at least one additional staff member, and an office. On February 1 AFHTO will move into shared office space on College Street in Toronto, close to Ontario government offices and many of the other associations and agencies with whom we collaborate.
AFHTO’s submission to Drummond Commission on Broader Public Sector Reform
AFHTO was invited to present to the Commission on Broader Public Sector Reform, chaired by economist Don Drummond and announced in the 2011 Ontario Budget speech last spring. The Commission is to report in early 2012, in time to inform development of Government’s 2012-13 Budget, on its mandate to examine long-term, fundamental changes to the way government works including:
Registrations now being accepted for Wave 4 of HQO's Advanced Access and Efficiency for Primary Care
AFHTO is pleased to support Health Quality Ontario’s (HQO) Learning Community Wave 4 in Advanced Access and Efficiency for Primary Care. I'm writing to let FHTs know about an upcoming opportunity to participate in this valuable learning experience. An important goal for a clinic implementing advanced access is that patients calling to schedule a visit are offered an appointment with their provider on their day of choice, which may be the same day or a prebooked appointment for a future day .