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AFHTO 2016 Conference: Early-bird registration closes Sep 19. Additional speakers confirmed.
| Ontario’s healthcare system is undergoing significant transformation and primary care providers – interprofessional staff, physicians, board members and more – need to understand its impact as well as their own potential role.
Help your team navigate these changes by registering them for the AFHTO 2016 Conference. Registration and room rates increase after Sep. 19. |
Introducing our new Strategic Plan!
AFHTO is pleased to share its 2017-2020 Strategic Plan. This plan builds on our experience which shows that team-based comprehensive primary care is delivering better health and better value to patients.
Volunteers needed for Health Quality Standards Advisory Committees
Health Quality Ontario (HQO) is seeking volunteers interested in joining one of three Quality Standards Advisory Committees. Quality standards are concise sets of evidence-based recommendations designed to drive positive change within a particular area of health care. HQO has begun work on a number of new quality standards and are looking for members that will provide advice to support the development of standards of care in Ontario.
AFHTO measurement efforts capture widespread attention
People across Ontario and North America are keen to learn about the ground-breaking advances AFHTO members are making to meaningfully measure primary care. AFHTO submitted nine abstracts to four major conferences, and all were accepted. See the slides and posters linked within the descriptions below.
Primary care recruitment and retention strategy for Ontario
Evidence from around the world, and Ontario, demonstrates that the introduction of primary care teams is providing patients with better care, at the best value. But one of interprofessional primary care’s biggest barriers is to attract and keep skilled providers. The key issue? Inability to offer competitive compensation to the non-physician health professionals and administrative staff who work in our community health centres, family health teams, nurse practitioner-led clinics and aboriginal health access centres.
Member Case Study: Building Collaboration (based on QIDS Partnerships)
AFHTO Members: Experienced in Building Collaboration Patients First calls for collaboration across subLHIN regions. It also calls for spreading measurement for quality improvement and performance monitoring. AFHTO members’ experience in building QIDS partnerships (about 150 AFHTO member organizations are actively involved) provides a foundation for both these objectives.
Member Case Study: Optimizing Interprofessional Resources & Spreading Access to Teams
AFHTO Members Expanding Access Within Their Communities As government implements the vision of Patients First, the creation of sub-LHIN regions will enable a shift to a population-based approach to health care planning and delivery. It is hoped through these system-level changes patients will receive more timely access to, and better integration of, primary care, and better coordination and continuity of services.
AFHTO President's column on tentative physician services agreement published
New deal serves doctors and patients alike
Waterloo Region Record article published on Aug. 8, 2016. Article in full pasted below. Dr. Sean Blaine, Waterloo Region Record