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Nurse Practitioner Week

Thank you to all the NPs working in primary care teams for your passion, your dedication, and your ongoing commitment to excellent patient-centred care! Happy Nurse Practitioner Week!

Reminder- 40% discount on CPS Full Access available to members

If you spend time clarifying prescriptions, use CPS Full Access, a Canadian-developed platform that features up-to-date Canadian information such as:

• Current drug shortages.
• Health Canada–approved product names, indications, dosing, and patient information.
• Warnings, recalls and safety alerts.
• Evidence-based therapeutic content and algorithms.
• Drug tables with price ranges.  

Annual subscriptions are normally priced at $769 plus HST. As a member of AFHTO, you can get your annual CPS Full Access subscription at a reduced rate of only $461 plus HST per year, which includes both web and mobile applications.

For additional information, please see here.

Member stories

City of Lakes FHT – 2022-23 annual report

Hamilton FHT – Hamilton needs 60 more family doctors, health team says

Connect with your peers using AFHTO’s IHP Directory

IHPs in AFHTO member teams are encouraged to sign up to AFHTO’s IHP Directory! This directory will help improve AFHTO’s communication to IHPs, and it will support IHP networking, information sharing, and collaboration.

After you sign up, you will be emailed a link to a spreadsheet with the names, professions, team names, and work emails of all IHPs who have signed up for open communication. You may sort by profession to see the names of those in the same discipline as you.

AFHTO will be checking the directory and emailing links to new registrants every 1-2 weeks. We look forward to improved communication from AFHTO to IHPs, and across IHPs in AFHTO-member teams!

News and updates including funding for leadership in compassion and artificial intelligence

• AMS Healthcare has launched programs for leadership in compassion and artificial intelligence. These include one-year fellowships of up to $75,000 and grants of up to $30,000 “to support projects that will generate new knowledge or translate existing knowledge on the impact of digital technology and artificial intelligence on compassionate health care.” Find out more here.
• SARS-CoV-2 infection triggers pro-atherogenic inflammatory responses in human coronary vessels – Nature Cardiovascular Research, Sep. 28, 2023

Learn more about E2P point-of-care EMR tools, Nov. 17, 2023
Join E2P during Digital Health Week for a 60-minute webinar on November 17 (12:30-1:30 p.m. ET) to learn how these free point-of-care EMR tools can enable integrated patient care.
Register here.

Food as Medicine Update 2023, Nov. 17, 2023
The Food as Medicine Update series was created to address the knowledge-gap in continuing medical education related to the role of nutrition in patient care. Find out more.

2024/25 Quality Improvement Plans Launch, Nov. 22, 2023
Hosted by Ontario Health to share this year’s priorities and supporting documents. Register here.

New Horizons: A Conversation with Mayor Olivia Chow, Nov. 24, 2023
Part of the New Horizons Speaker Series: Navigating toward the future of family medicine hosted by UofT Family Medicine. Register here.