Patients First calls for collaboration across subLHIN regions. It also calls for spreading measurement for quality improvement and performance monitoring. AFHTO members’ experience in building QIDS partnerships (about 150 AFHTO member organizations are actively involved) provides a foundation for both these objectives. These QIDS partnerships have been a critical ingredient in the advances AFHTO members are making to meaningfully measure primary care. This new resource – Building Collaboration and Increased Capacity through QIDS Partnerships – illustrates three different approaches to organizing these partnerships. It describes each approach and then examines all three to identify the challenges they faced, the enablers for success and the lessons learned. This knowledge, together with that gained from other types of partnerships AFHTO members have developed, can be applied to strengthen your QIDS partnership, evaluate existing partnerships (e.g. Health Links and other community programs) and help to broaden your reach into other areas of collaboration. Learning from your peers: additional case studies AFHTO has developed a series of case studies for our members to share the experience of colleagues on topics identified as being important to you:
- Unionization – the Experience of Ten Family Health Teams
- Embedding Care Coordinators in your Team
- Four FHTs share how they integrated their staff and operations
- Optimizing Resources & Spreading Access to Interprofessional Teams (Coming soon, stay tuned!)
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