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A qualitative RE-AIM evaluation of an embedded community paramedicine program in an Ontario Family Health Team
Abstract
Background
In 2014, a rural Family Health Team (FHT) in Ontario, Canada embedded a community paramedicine program into their primary care practice to improve care for their complex patients. Community paramedics are health care professionals who extend their role beyond emergency services to provide primary care in home and community settings. The study aims to evaluate the utility of having community paramedics embedded in a rural FHT.
Scoping review of social workers’ professional roles in primary care
By: Rachelle Ashcroft, Keith Adamson, Fred Phelps, Glenda Webber, Benjamin Walsh, Louis-François Dallaire, Deepy Sur, Connor Kemp, Jennifer Rayner, Simon Lam, Judith Belle Brown
Abstract
Objectives Maximising social workers’ contributions to primary care requires clarity about their scope of practice in this context. This scoping review sought to clarify what is known about social work’s scope of practice in primary care settings.
Statement on the Announcement re Safe Consumption
Dear AFHTO Members,
Eliminating access to vital harm reduction care and programs will have high costs for Ontario families – including more deaths due to toxic drugs + increased costs to our health system, but without results for people and communities
AFHTO Bright Lights Awards
2024 Bright Lights Awards
AFHTO’s “Bright Lights” Awards recognize AFHTO members’ leadership, outstanding work and the significant progress being made to improve the value interprofessional primary care teams across Ontario deliver.
Bright Lights Award recipients are:
The Impact of Interpersonal Continuity of Primary Care on Health Care Costs and Use: A Critical Review
By Andrew Bazemore, Zach Merenstein, Lara Handler and John W. Saultz
The Annals of Family Medicine May 2023, 21 (3) 274-279;
Submission re Bill 60, Your Health Act, 2023
Submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy
Submitted in partnership with the Association of Family Physicians (AFHTO), Alliance for Healthier Communities, Indigenous Primary Health Care Council (IPHCC) and Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic Association (NPLCA)
Re: Bill 60, Your Health Act, 2023
March 27, 2023
Putting Primary Care at the Centre of Ontario’s Health System: DLSPH Researchers to Advise Primary Care Groups
By Heidi Singer on November 30, 2022
With Canadian health care systems in crisis, a University of Toronto researcher is working to inform stakeholders on building high-performing integrated primary care systems – work that she hopes will support them to make real change in the sector.