| Below are relevant updates and items for AFHTO members, some with fast-approaching deadlines: |
AFHTO News
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| AFHTO 2017 Conference registration now live: Members receive a 50% discount on registration. Contact your administrator for your access code. Learn more here. |
Interested in serving on the AFHTO board of directors? Nominations are open until Thursday, July 6, 2017. |
News Relevant to Primary Care
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| Expression of Interest to establish an Indigenous IPC Team: application process now launched by the Ministry. Indigenous member teams are invited to apply. Deadline August 21, 2017. |
Patients First – latest updates available here, including news on the latest CCAC transfers to LHINs and the “Achieving Excellence Together” Conference. |
| Funding and remuneration of interdisciplinary primary care teams in Canada: a conceptual framework and application – BMC Health Services Research article |
Medical Assistance in Dying Statute Law Amendment Act, 2017: slides from the Ministry’s May 16 webinar now available. |
Resources, Reports and Requests for Input
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| Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) seeking input from teams in Northeastern Ontario: o Now working with the Réseau du mieux-être francophone du Nord de l’Ontario (Réseau) to identify physicians, NPs, receptionists and IHPs providing services in both official languages. |
Legal information for patients: Steps to Justice is a new website from Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) providing information on common legal problems in family, housing, employment, social assistance, criminal, and other areas of law. |
| o By answering a quick 5 minutes questionnaire by phone, you will contribute to the goal of capturing the present picture of French-language services being offered in Northeastern Ontario. The findings will be used by both NOSM and the Réseau to direct their efforts in improving the access to primary care services and human resources planning. If you are a family physician or a nurse practitioner and would like to participate, please contact Doniya Quenneville, project lead, at (705) 674-9381 ext. 203 or 1-866-489-7484 or by email at dquenneville@rmefno.ca. Deadline is August 1st, 2017. |
Rainbow Health Ontario seeking input from health and mental health providers working with children and youth: 5- minute survey to assess capacity in addressing the needs of gender-diverse child and youth clients/patients. If you have any questions, please contact Ilene Hyman i.hyman@utoronto.ca. Deadline July 15, 2017. Standards for Post-Concussion Care: recently released by Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation (ONF) |
| Engaging Patients in Patient Safety – a Canadian Guide: developed by Canadian Patient Safety Institute in collaboration with Health Quality Ontario and various partners. |
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| Protecting Personal Health Information, June 26, 2017: webinar co-presented by AFHTO and the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario |
Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP) workshops: o Mood Disorders: Advanced Strategies for Primary Care Physicians, Sep. 22, 2017 |
| Strategies for Building and Maintaining an Effective Board in Primary Care, July 11, 2017: first webinar in a series of webcast and online learning modules from AFHTO’s partnership with Governance Centre for Excellence. |
o Women’s Health Intrauterine Contraception: Theory to Practice, Sep. 23, 2017 |
| NPAO Conference, Sep. 21 – 23 2017: and NPAO Patient Choice Award – deadline June 23, 2017. |
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