Member news: responding to patients threatening self-harm, nominations, and more

AFHTO News

North Perth FHT staff with petition

Hamilton FHT NPs with  petition

MPP Laurie Scott with City of Kawartha Lakes FHT petition

Belleville NPLC staff presenting petition to MPP Todd Smith

• Compensation Campaign Phase 2: Thank you to everyone who have signed petitions, written letters, met with their MPPs, tweeted and more. It’s not too late to take part- send an eletter to key Cabinet Ministers and make your voice heard!

Success Stories & Publications

• Memory Clinics: Bright Lights award-winning program now expanding to 17 more sites, including several AFHTO members, through ARTIC funding.

• Applying the pharmaceutical care model to assess pharmacist services in a primary care setting: Canadian Pharmacists Journal article by North York FHT pharmacists Eric Lui, Christine Truong & Rita Ha

Ministry News

• Volunteers for Ontario’s Patient and Family Advisory Council Needed: encourage your patients & their caregivers to participate. Deadline Apr. 10, 2017

• Patients First Update, Feb. 27, 2017: webinar on progress of implementation co-hosted by Deputy Minister Dr. Bob Bell and Nancy Naylor, Associate Deputy Minister, Delivery and Implementation.
• Other updates available here.

Awards Nominations & Funding Opportunities

• Nominate a nurse for the Toronto Star Nightingale Award: 16th annual nominations now open. Deadline Mar. 16, 2017

• 2017 Ontario College of Family Physicians Awards open: nominate your team or team member today. Nomination deadline is Mar. 31, 2017.

• Health System Impact Fellowships: Canadian Institutes of Health Research funding opportunity for PhD graduates. Deadline May 9. Information webinar Mar. 7- register here.

Training, Resources and Requests for Input

• Responding to Patients Threatening to Endanger Themselves: protocol for reception provided by HarbourView FHT

• Chronic Insomnia Tool: developed as part of Knowledge Translation in Primary Care Initiative

• Seeking participants for research study to help improve care for patients with chronic kidney disease: McMaster PhD student trying to understand the factors that influence whether primary care providers order follow-up laboratory tests when they first identify patients with abnormal kidney function.
• Eligible to participate- family physicians or nurse practitioners who are primary care providers for patients with chronic kidney disease. Participation is voluntary and involves an approx. 30-minute telephone or in-person meeting. Please contact Danielle Nash for more information at 519-685-8500 x55980 or Danielle.nash@lhsc.on.ca. 

• Barrie & Community FHT privacy survey: seeking input from FHTs on how they manage their privacy responsibilities and their relationships with their physicians. To be completed by each ED or designated privacy lead. Once completed, results will be shared with all members. Deadline Mar. 3, 2017

• Health Links patient story: learn more about Teresa and the importance of feeling accepted by your primary care provider.

• Submit an abstract for Trillium Primary Health Care Research Day: poster and oral presentations for an audience of PHC researchers, trainees, decision makers, clinicians and patients. Due May 1, 2017.

• IDEAS Advanced Learning Program applications open: equipping healthcare professionals with the knowledge, practical skills and tools to lead quality improvement initiatives that aim to improve patient care, experience and outcomes. Deadline May 15, 2017.

• Advance Care Planning Primer: free online course co-authored by Dr. Tia Pham of South East Toronto FHT (SETFHT)

• A Canadian Provider’s Handbook to Home-Based Primary Care: co-authors Dr. Sabrina Akhtar (Toronto Western FHT) & Dr. Tia Pham (SETFHT)

Conferences and Events

• Program Planning and AOP Reporting, Mar. 6, 2017: webinar co-presented with Ontario Public Health to support you in developing your annual operating plan for 2017-18.

• Get Moving! Physical Activity for Better Quality Care, Mar. 7, 2017: for clinicians, QIDSS and patients. Travel support available for participants with more than $300 in travel costs. Limited space available.

• Democratizing Knowledge to Reduce Disparities in Healthcare, Mar. 3, 2017: online & in-person event with Dr. Sanjeev Arora of Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes)

• QIP Navigator Support Sessions, Mar. 8 & 23, 2017: Health Quality Ontario webinars for individuals that play a key role in leading the completion and submission of the annual QIP.

• Living Well with Dementia, Mar. 16, 2017: symposium at Ryerson University on assumptions about dementia and current local, national and international initiatives.

• Advancing Team-Based Primary Care, Mar. 20-21, 2017: Institute for Healthcare Improvement seminar in San Francisco on how to optimize primary care team composition, roles, and activities.

• Educating Service Providers about STBBIs and Stigma, Mar. 27, 2017: free session in Windsor hosted by the Canadian Public Health Association

• South West Regional Wound Care Program, Mar. 29 & Apr. 3, 2017: free workshops for clinicians with skin and wound care management knowledge and experience