Executive Directors: You have received your Family Health Team 2013/14 Annual Operating Plan Submission Package at some point today. Plans must be submitted to the Ministry by February 20. To support FHTs in this submission process, AFHTO will re-launch a Peer-to-Peer discussion forum in early January. This facility will help you seek and share advice with your peers as you develop your plans. The 2013/14 package offers FHTs the opportunity to propose implementation of a new role – the Quality Improvement Decision Support Specialist (QIDSS). The package states, “The ministry strongly encourages and will give preference to requests for this resource that are shared among a collection of FHTs, where appropriate. … This new position is meant to assist FHTs in moving forward with their use of data to guide clinical decision-making, develop patient-centred programs and other improvement activities. With the assignment of these resources, the ministry expects demonstrated improvements in these and other areas.” To help FHTs with their proposals for the new QIDSS position, AFHTO is preparing an advice document for FHTs. With the view to gaining the greatest value from these new positions, AFHTO is looking into various ways FHTs could structure and frame their proposals for shared use of this resource. We are aiming to complete this advice document for members no later than January 23. With the many new initiatives FHTs will be responding to over the next few months – e.g. the first Quality Improvement Plans by April 1, development of Health Links – AFHTO is enhancing its ability to support FHTs in these common needs by recruiting a contract position, Senior Project Lead- FHT Governance, Quality, Operations. We expect to have this additional assistance in place before the end of January. We look forward to continuing to support FHT success in improving and delivering optimal, sustainable interprofessional care.
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