Fall Highlights: AFHTO Leadership Councils

Below are Fall highlights from AFHTO’s Executive Director Advisory Council (EDAC), Physician Leadership Council (PLC), and the NPLC Leadership Council:

Raising the Bar on Governance

• Board Chair Council launching January 2018 – encourage your board chair to volunteer!
• Transitioning to a skills-based board? Contact AFHTO to hear experiences from other boards.
• Governance resources from OHA’s Governance Centre of Excellence (GCE) exclusively for AFHTO members:
  • Register now for November 22^nd webcast (Privacy and Enterprise Risk Management in Primary Care)
  • Strategies for Building and Maintaining an Effective Board in Primary Care – webcast recording available
  • Financial Literacy – complete online module to be available early December 2017

Investing in our Leaders

• AFHTO is exploring partnerships with LEADS Canada, Joules Physician Leadership Institute, OCFP and Rotman so we can offer more leadership development opportunities. Further details to come!
• Thank you to the 200 member leaders who attended the Leadership Triad Session on Care Coordination at AFHTO’s conference. A summary report will be provided shortly!
• Missed the leadership workshops at AFHTO conference? Click to see the presentations “Demonstrating Resilience and Leadership Through Times of Change: Tools for Physician Leaders” and Solving Really Really Really Hard Problems: Tools for EDs
• Instincts at Work – FREE webinar: ‘Why are we doing this? ‘The role of Vision in overcoming resistance to change’ (Thursday November 16th from 12 – 1PM)

D2D: Demonstrating Value & Identifying Enablers of Quality

• One of the most exciting stories coming out of D2D 5.0 is the good news that health system costs for patients of primary-care teams are continuing to decline, and high quality primary care is still related to lower system cost.
• The team profile data in D2D is allowing us to identify, for the first time, what team characteristics are associated with high performance. If your team didn’t participate in this aspect of D2D this time around, talk to them about doing so in the next iteration (January-February 2018).
• 36 teams agreed to be unmasked to their peers, which will allow AFHTO members to reach out to teams that performed well on indicators where they’re looking to improve, to get support.
• If you’re connected with your LHIN leaders, consider sharing LHIN-level D2D data with them to engage them in what primary care teams are doing and saying about measurement.

Additional Training, Tools & Resources

• As you start planning your programs and services for 2018-2019, don’t forget the Program Performance Measures Catalogue and other tools developed with AFHTO members, to help make program planning & evaluation easier. Use these tools with your IHPs to make program planning an interprofessional exercise and ensure that you are measuring your programs in a way that’s meaningful to the team.
• Partnered supports for managing pain & addictions are now available, including queries for opioid use created by QIDS Specialists for use with the three most commonly-used EMRs among our membership.
• Partnership with Public Services Health & Safety Association (PSHSA)to equip members with the tools, resources and training requirements needed to meet the Safe at Work Ontario enforcement initiative.
  • Register now – How to engage everyone in an integrated Family Health Team (Password = AFHTO) (Live webcast December 7^th 2017)
  • How to Keep Current on Legislative Requirements & Ensure Readiness for an MOL Initiative (recorded webcast offered in August & October)
  • Our online Health & Safety Resources Webpage is now live (include sample policies and a Health & Safety Resource Manual)!

• OHIP+ Webinar

AFHTO will host a webinar on OHIP+: Children and Youth Pharmacare facilitated by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care on Thursday, November 30^th, 2017 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Learn what changes this program will bring to your patients.

• BILL 148- Major Changes to the Employment Standards Act

Join Maria McDonald of McDonald Health Law for a webinar on Tuesday, December 5^th at 12:00 p.m. to learn more about the major changes to the Employment Standards Act and how it will impact your organization.

Register now at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4354511734978599171

 What’s Ahead:

Recruitment & Retention

• AFHTO is currently waiting for the Ministry’s response to the Q & A document.

FHT-MOHLTC Contract Implementation

• Support for teams to meet the new FHT-Ministry contract requirements. AFHTO hopes to receive the final draft contract in the next few weeks!

Regional Workshops

• Co-development of regional leadership workshops for EDs, lead physicians and board chairs to meet with key stakeholders in their region to address relevant priority areas, advance local collaborations, and generate practical, actionable plans to move ahead. (winter/spring)

Advancing LHIN relations & education

• AFHTO continues to stay abreast of the varying approaches and engagement to date across each of the LHINs re. the expansion of interprofessional care teams. Supporting our members in business case development and LHIN relations will remain a key priority moving forward.
• For LHINs to fund FHTs & NPLCs they will have to establish a formal relationship through the signing of provincial Service Accountability Agreement (SAA). AFHTO is participating on the provincial SAA Advisory Committee with the LHINs to help inform the development of these agreements.

If you have any further questions or comments, please contact Bryn Hamilton, Provincial Lead for the Governance & Leadership program.