Updated as of January 22, 2016 Assuming you have established that the data are good enough to direct action AND that improving performance in this area is a priority for your team, you may wish to discuss the following options with your clinical leaders, Quality Improvement committees, team staff and/or patients:
- Interventions to improve cancer screening rates using the CCO Cancer Screening Quality Improvement Toolkit designed specifically for Family Health Teams (.doc)
- Identify and set an improvement target and work towards it using the change ideas presented in HQO’s Primary Care Practice Group Report (to be released by HQO early in 2016)
- Contact your peers to determine their performance and work with them to either spread any processes they find have helped them or collaboratively test some new changes that might work for you AND your peers.
- Learn about what other family physician leaders are doing working as part of the Provincial Primary Care and Cancer Network
- Sign your physicians up for monthly screening reports via CCO SAR. Once they get through the sign-up process, most physicians agree that these reports are very helpful, especially if you or they have trouble getting or trusting your EMR data for cancer screening.
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