Please share with other members of your team who may be interested. See below for more information on the following:

• HQO’s Health Quality Transformation 2015 accepting abstracts until July 30, 2015
• Ontario Patient Ombudsman: Encourage patients to participate in consultation by August 31
• Grant opportunity coming soon: Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Grant for IHPs and Physicians
• Primary Care participation needed:
  • Toronto Western specialists seeking family physician input on specialty referrals
  • Canadian Public Health Association – STBBI Stigma Questionnaire Pilot
  • Atrial Fibrillation screening study
  • Volunteer family physicians in Toronto needed for Yonge Street Mission

HQO’s Health Quality Transformation 2015 accepting abstracts until July 30, 2015

Submit an abstract or visit the conference website for submission guidelines. This is an opportunity for AFHTO 2015 Conference presenters to preview your presentations while increasing exposure for your initiatives (time and budget permitting).

Ontario Patient Ombudsman: Encourage patients to participate in consultation by August 31

The province is inviting the public to share their ideas on what skills, experience and personality traits they’d like to see in Ontario’s first Patient Ombudsman. Invite patients to participate by:

1. Reading Ontario’s First Patient Ombudsman.
2. Reflecting on their experiences, within the health care system, as a current or former patient, caregiver or decision-maker for a patient.
3. Share feedback online by August 31, 2015. The survey should take about 10 minutes.

For further detail and to participate please visit the website.

Grant opportunity coming soon: Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Grant for IHPs and Physicians

Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF) Ontario Region has given advanced notice for its Fall 2015 Call for Proposals to be released in mid-August. IHPS and physicians working with breast cancer initiatives may be eligible for the Research Grants and Fellowship Programs. To find out more, please contact cbcfallocations@cbcf.org.

Primary Care Participation needed:

Toronto Western Specialists seeking family physician input on specialty referrals

“Unfortunately too often, as specialists, we are guilty of failing to adequately address the needs of our family physician colleagues in how we collectively care for our patients by providing consultation support, and we hope to remedy this.” As a result, Toronto Western Hospital internists are conducting a 5-minute survey in a bid to find new ways of providing consultation services to family physicians. They hope to use this information to inform a pilot program. For further details you can read the research proposal.

Canadian Public Health Association (CPHCA) – STBBI stigma questionnaire pilot

CPHA is seeking participation from front-line health and social service providers (including administration staff) who may come into contact with individuals living with or at risk of sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBIs). Participants will be testing the Health and Social Service Provider Attitudes and Beliefs About People at Risk of or Living with STBBIs Questionnaire. For further details, please contact Rachel MacLean at rmaclean@cpha.ca.

Atrial Fibrillation screening study seeking primary care participation

Canadian Stroke Prevention Intervention Network (C-SPIN) is looking for primary care clinics interested in participating in a randomized trial investigating new technology for screening patients for early detection of atrial fibrillation (AF).  The trial is being led by Drs. David Gladstone, Noah Ivers, Russell Quinn and Jeff Healey. For further information, you can read this project summary or email Project Manager Alex Grinvalds at alex.grinvalds@phri.ca.

Volunteer family physicians in Toronto needed for Yonge Street Mission

Yonge Street Mission is seeking Toronto family physicians to volunteer with a health clinic for one or two afternoons a month. They work with youth ages 16-24 that are marginalized and who need access to doctors in a non-judgmental and safe environment. If interested, please contact Kristin Hersey, Volunteer Resources Coordinator at 416-929-9614 x 4284 or khersey@ysm.ca.