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Patient and family engagement in primary care case studies
On Thursday, June 11, The Change Foundation released Patient and Family Engagement in Primary Care: Building effective patient and family advisory councils in three Ontario communities, a case study report featuring three FHTs. The report finds twenty key lessons in 5 categories- launching, recruiting, operating, relationships and sustaining.
Teams featured:
Free internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy programs
The Government of Ontario is offering a variety of free mental health resources that they can access online. This includes internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) programs, such as AbilitiCBT, by Morneau Shepell, and Beacon Digital Therapy by MindBeacon.
To access these supports, visit covid-19.ontario.ca. If you’re interested in learning more, please visit our site.
Are teams in scope for the PPE Data Collection/ CSE Survey?
On Tuesday, June 9 EOC Operations sent an email titled “Important Update on the Minister’s Order and Direction on PPE Data Collection/ CSE Survey”. We sent a copy to all EDs and Administrative Leads on Wednesday, June 10.
As mentioned in April, teams are encouraged to collaborate with the FHO and FHN to submit a survey together. Multiple sites should be included within one survey. If the FHO/FHN teams can’t collaborate with the FHT then when the FHT submits the survey they should clearly identify that the data included is only for the FHT staff.
Each location is to track individually, but everything is to be submitted in one document. Use the Excel document and make a tab at the bottom for each site (copy and paste the chart into each tab). One tab should be for the FHT and then each FHO/FHN has its own additional tab. If you have any questions, please email info@afhto.ca.
Team-based care supporting patient communities through COVID-19 slides and recording
On Thursday, June 11 we presented the Team-Based Care Supporting Patient Communities Through COVID-19 webinar. Slides and video are now available on our site.
Interested in sharing initiatives your teams are a part of? Email us at improve@afhto.ca.
New resources for re-opening, stress, grief, and bereavement support and more
Resources released within the last week include:
- Recommendations for Regional Health Care Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Outpatient Care, Primary Care, and Home and Community Care
- PPE and Infection Control for In-office Assessments– OCFP
- COVID-19 Lockdown Lifting: Expert Panel on Resumption of Health Care Services– Miller Thompson LLP webinar recording
- A Governance Guide for Health Service Resumption: What Directors Need to Know– Miller Thompson LLP webinar recording
- Free, confidential stress, grief, and bereavement support line for front line health care workers– Hospice Palliative Care Ontario
We continue to update several pages on our site with resources and news:
- Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Updates– the original page, with news and Ministry situation reports (please note that the Ministry Situation Reports on COVID-19 are posted daily so review them to better understand the provincial response)
- COVID-19 assessment centres across Ontario (members only per Ministry request)
- COVID-19 information for Patients, Caregivers and the Public
- Infection control resources and tools for primary care
- H+K Memos and Insight Notes on Government Press Releases
- Management and operations, human resources and COVID-19
- Mental health and wellness during COVID-19
- Providing Comprehensive Care During COVID-19
- Resources for Re-opening – NEW
- Virtual Care, Digital Health and COVID-19
United Way Halton and Hamilton wants to help you scale social prescribing- June 23
United Way Halton and Hamilton is interested in helping to scale social prescribing in a coordinated way in their region. They are hosting a webcast on social prescribing on June 23 at 1 pm to start the conversation, with the hopes of convening interested key stakeholders for roundtable discussions following this webcast. Register here.
Ensuring Appropriateness and Quality in Cancer Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic, June 17, 2020
Join Choosing Wisely Canada for their Weekly Virtual Gatherings during COVID-19. This week they’re discussing how to apply resource stewardship principles to contribute to safe and quality cancer care during this time.
Register here.
Delivering Virtual Care to Manage Chronic Respiratory Disease: Tips for Healthcare Providers, June 17, 2020
Discuss benefits and challenges, clinical tools and resources, barriers, and practical tips for providing virtual care for chronic respiratory disease. Register in advance.
Social Prescribing in Practice Lunch & Learn, June 17, 2020
Continue the conversation on Social Prescribing with the Alliance for Healthier Communities in this follow-up webinar.
Learn more here.
Digital Solutions: Adoption, Adaptation and their role in post-Covid19 health and social care delivery, June 18, 2020
Join IFIC to discuss the balance between keeping people at home and in the community without adversely deferring necessary health services to those who need it. Learn more here.
An opportunity to re-evaluate high value care and clinical preventive services, June 18, 2020
Join this CFPC webinar as part of the COVID-19 Pivots. Learn more here.
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