Bits & Pieces: Helen Bevan, NP week, Family Doctors week, members in the media & more
Your Weekly News & Updates Helen Bevan webinar registration open Internationally renown change agent Helen Bevan will facilitate a virtual lunch and learn on Primary Care and Health System Change on Nov. 22, hosted by The Change Foundation and offered to AFHTO and OCFP members. Bevan, the Chief Transformation Officer for the National Health Service […]
10 Tips for Advancing a Culture of Improvement in Primary Care
Authors: Tara Kiran, Noor Ramji, Mary Beth Derocher, Girdhari Rajesh, Samantha Davie, Margarita Lam-Antoniades; St. Michaels Academic FHT Abstract Embracing practice-based quality improvement (QI) represents one way for clinicians to improve the care they provide to patients while also improving their own professional satisfaction. But engaging in care redesign is challenging for clinicians. In this article, we describe our experience over the […]
Resources for Patient Engagement
Patient Engagement Surveys Other Ways to Engage Patients Tools from Your Peers Tools from Partner Organizations Measuring What Matters to Patients with Patient Experience Surveys AFHTO’s measurement initiative, Data to Decisions (D2D), aims to measure quality according to what matters most to patients, according to the Starfield Model of measurement. In 2015, AFHTO and Patients […]
Bits & Pieces: Provincial policy manual including cannabis, antibiotics, collaborative governance, & more
Your Weekly News & Updates Provincial policy manual for primary care teams and practices It’s finally here! We have developed a set of standardized policy templates for primary care. These templates can be used by teams across the province or shared with other primary care practices, such as solo physicians and non-team-based clinics. The manual […]
Governance Webcast Series: ED Performance Management
The governance attestation requires every board have an executive director performance evaluation process in place. For guidance, a framework has been developed by Accompass to support boards in meeting this requirement. During this webcast, Accompass reviewed the Lead Executive Performance Guide. It includes the role of the board, key principles and best practices in ED […]
Espanola and Area FHT Recognized as Healthy Change Champion
My Algoma Manitoulin Now article published on November 1, 2018 By Rosalind Russell, My Algoma Manitoulin Now The Webbwood Public Library is being recognized for its health services, not just its books. For their work to bring more services to Webbwood, two institutions have been named North East LHIN Healthy Change Champions says LHINS CEO, Jeremy […]
LeaderShift Applied Leadership E-Learning Series
LeaderShift is thrilled to announce the launch of the Applied Leadership E-Learning Series. This online series will feature short, laser-focused learning on key leadership topics that will give you practical, actionable insights you can use right away. The first topic in this series will be “How to Give Better Feedback.” High-performing teams rely on effective, […]
Collaborative Governance Case Studies: How Collaborative Are You?
Collaborative governance is simply multiple boards partnering together to collectively achieve results for shared communities and/or stakeholders. Read these case studies to learn how two FHTs took a differing approach to collaborative governance, and learn where your board falls on the spectrum of collaboration.
Provincial Policy Manual for Primary Care Teams and Practices
We are pleased to share the Provincial Policy Manual developed for primary care. The policy templates can be used by primary care teams across the province or by other primary care practices (solo physicians and non-team based clinics). The manual gives you the flexibility to determine, for your own practice or setting, what policies are […]
Data to Decisions eBulletin #81: Sharpening our focus
Halloween is done. Conference 2018 is done. It’s time to get back to demonstrating the value of the work primary care teams do every day! Based on member input, AFHTO’s board chose ‘follow-up after hospitalization” as a priority for improvement across the membership for the coming year. This bulletin highlights activities that might help in […]