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#AFHTO2024 materials now available to all members
All members can now access 2024 conference resources! Find out more about what your peers are up to below.
Resources:
- Opening plenary: Integrating Caregivers as Partners in Care: Momentum for a Whole-System Approach slides
- Closing plenary: Empowering Primary Care Teams: The AI Advantage. (slides)
- Slide presentations from the concurrent sessions
- Online gallery of posters presented at the conference
On- Demand sessions
- OD1 – Scope of Nursing in Primary Care Offices- The Handguide
- OD2 – How To Use Team-Based Care And Personalized Tech To Help Patients With Chronic Conditions Successfully Cope And Self-Manage At Home
- OD3 – Effective and Efficient Diagnosis of Adult Patients with Cervical Lymphadenopathy: An Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario) Pathway Map
Reminder- PHIPA and Patient Records Retention webinar Feb. 26
As a reminder, the next webinar in the Lunch and Learn series with INQ Law is on February 26, 2025: PHIPA and Patient Records Retention. Learn more and register here: Lunch and Learn Webinar Series with INQ Law
For Us. For You. social media posts for election advocacy
Last week we provided members with our election advocacy toolkit. Here is additional social media content to support your engagement from the For Us. For You. Campaign.
Member stories
Bruyère Academic FHT- Congratulations to Rosette Castor on receiving the King Charles III Coronation Medal
Couchiching FHT– and partners launch coordinated walk-in mental health support
Ingersoll NPLC and Thames Valley FHT- establishing temporary clinic in Tillsonburg for individuals without a primary care provider
Queens FHT- over 13,000 residents in Frontenac, Lennox and Addington got family doctors in 2024
Summerville FHT- pediatric clinic aims to alleviate ER pressures in Mississauga, Peel
Indigenous Cultural Safety in Mental Health course
The Indigenous Primary Health Care Council (IPHCC) has launched their newest course: Indigenous Cultural Safety in Mental Health, developed under their Anishinaabe Mino’Ayaawin – People in Good Health approach.
The self-paced online course provides essential knowledge for healthcare professionals and those working with Indigenous communities to foster culturally safer mental health practices.
Happy Psychology month
To all our psychologists, thank you for looking out for Ontarians’ mental health as we go through even more challenging times. Happy Psychology Month!
News and updates including healthcare top election issue for Ontario voters
- Healthcare is top election issue for Ontario voters– CTV, Feb. 9, 2025
- New guidebooks from PEACH:
- Climate Emergency Jumpstart Toolkit: An implementation guide to streamline your climate journey ; French version
- Environmental stewardship in ICU: A roadmap for a more sustainable practice; French version
- Sustainability in Cardiovascular Care: A Toolkit for Development a Greener Practice; French Version
- Changes in incident schizophrenia diagnoses associated with cannabis use disorder after cannabis legalization– ICES, Feb. 2, 2025
- Preventing and Managing Burns– Wounds Canada care guide for patients and care partners
Lunch and Learn webinar series with INQ Law, Feb. 26 & Mar.6, 2025
February 26, 2025: PHIPA and Patient Records Retention
March 6, 2025: Governance 101 Update and Refresh
Colposcopy webinar, Feb. 27, 2025
On March 3, 2025, Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario) will be introducing the human papillomavirus (HPV) test which will replace cytology as the primary test for cervical screening and will also be used for follow-up testing in colposcopy in the Ontario Cervical Screening Program (OCSP).
Resources have been developed to help you prepare for this change: ontariohealth.ca/hpvhub.
Ontario Health will be offering a webinar for:
Colposcopy:
If you have any questions, please contact Ontario Health at 1.866.662.9233 or cancerinfo@ontariohealth.ca.
Scaling up medical education for disability-inclusive healthcare, Feb. 28, 2025
Free webinar hosted by DDPCP Forum and Surrey Place. Register here.
Call for abstracts, 2025 NPAO Annual Conference
Deadline March 28, 2025. Find out more.
Together We Care Convention & Trade Show (TWC), April 7-9, 2025
Hosted by the Ontario Long Term Care Association and the Ontario Retirement Communities Association. Learn more.