March 19th Update on COVID-19 Vaccination Roll Out
Dear Members,
We are writing to provide you with an update from our united Primary Care COVID-19 Vaccination Collaborative (PC-VAC*). This week’s key messages that we shared with vaccine decision-makers can be found here.
Measuring the Patient/Client Experience with Virtual Care in Primary Care
Measuring the Patient/Client Experience with Virtual Care in Primary Care

Purpose:
Measuring Up 2019
Health Quality Ontario, now the Quality business unit of Ontario Health has
Annual Priorities for the 2020/21 Quality Improvement Plans
Health Quality Ontario (HQO) has launched the priorities for the 2020/21 Quality Improvement Plans (QIPs).
2019/20 Quality Improvement Plans available
In April Health Quality Ontario received 1,024 Quality Improvement Plans (QIPs) from hospitals, primary care organizations, long-term care homes, and LHIN home and community care services across Ontario. All of the 2019/20 QIPs are now available on QIP Navigator.
D2D 5.1: Getting Started and Changing Gears
AFHTO members have just released the 7th iteration of their performance measurement report, Data to Decisions 5.1. Voluntary participation in team-level measurement remains high. 90% of members have contributed so far, with over 60% in D2D 5.1. This makes D2D 5.1 a unique picture of primary care across the province, at the LHIN level, and (for the second time) at the sub-region level.
D2D 5.0: Demonstrating the value of primary care teams – AGAIN!
The results are in for D2D 5.0. As usual, AFHTO members have full access to all the data through the interactive report. A summary of performance at the province and LHIN levels is available on AFHTO’s public web page. Some of the highlights from this most recent release of D2D are listed below.