Annual AFHTO Leadership Session Reports

Every year, leaders from AFHTO member teams (board members, EDs/Admin Leads, and lead MDs/NPs) meet in advance of the annual conference. Below are links to past leadership session reports, along with the leadership themes from each year’s conference.

2018 – Addressing Mental Health and Addictions Needs in Primary Care

• In this year we partnered with the Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario, and co-designed a session to focus on mental health and primary care integration. Leaders from the CMHA chapters across the province  joined us  –  leaders in primary care – to discuss how both sectors can work more closely together to ensure patients receive timely access to care. The session was kicked off by our CEO, Kavita Mehta, and Camille Quenneville, CEO of the CMHA, Ontario. There were group discussions, followed by break-outs by region. We addressed the question “How do we ensure that we provide seamless care for our patients and create a well integrated system of care.” From this discussion, we took away action items to help teams be leaders in local change, as well as a set of recommendations to provide policy makers. Ministry officials also joined the discussion.
  • Read the full report here.

2017- The Way Forward: Care Coordination Being Led by Primary Care

• This year’s focus for the Leadership Triad Session was on care coordination and building primary care as the foundation of the health care system, such that more Ontarians have access to comprehensive primary care and coordination of care through primary care teams. Given the Minister’s LHIN mandate letter from May 1 2017 “to develop and implement a plan with input from primary care providers, patients, caregivers and partners that embeds care coordinators and system navigators in primary care to ensure smooth transitions of care between home and community care and other health and social services as required”, we believe care coordination to be a relevant and timely topic for both LHIN and AFHTO leaders.
  • Read the full report here. [PDF]
  • See the Ministry’s slides here. [PDF]

2016: Tackling the big issues: relationship and accountability questions in Ministry contracts

• The objective of this leadership session was to find common ground and guide AFHTO’s position on particularly challenging issues related to the FHT contract, as informed by membership consultation over the preceding summer. Major themes were: standardizing FHT contracts; fostering teamwork and defining the”team”; defining the “population” for which governors are accountable, defining minimum standards of governance/addressing conflict of interest; and accountability and dispute resolution.
  • Read the full report and next steps for AFHTO here. [PDF]

2015: Leading Primary Care through the Next Stage

• This Leadership Session was designed to identify issues and shape the direction to be taken by this sector, supported by the advocacy, networking and knowledge-sharing made possible through AFHTO. This year, the session focused on the question of a population-based approach to primary care.
  • Read the full report here. [PDF]

2014: Toward the Next Ministry Contract

• This Leadership Session was part of a comprehensive process of working with AFHTO membership to identify the key principles to guide the journey toward more mature relationships, including contracts that support high-quality comprehensive interprofessional primary care. The report summarizes the outcomes of the entire process, including the leadership session.
  • Explore the 2014 leadership theme: Accountability and governance for patient-centred care.

2013: Leadership in Health Care for Ontarians

• Summarizes the key messages and insights into primary care leadership gleaned from the AFHTO 2013 Conference – including the Leadership Session, concurrent sessions within the leadership theme, and plenary sessions.
  • Read the full report here. [PDF]
  • Explore the 2013 leadership theme: Leadership and Governance for Quality [PDF]

2012: Priorities, Goals, and Actions

• Leaders delved into the question of “How do we continue to build a stronger primary care foundation and work in a more integrated manner within the LHIN to ensure coordinated and seamless care for our patients?” The resulting Priorities, Goals and Actions report  lists the priorities and cross-cutting themes that emerged across all LHIN groups and documents the priorities, goals and short-term actions identified by the leaders from each LHIN.
  • Read the full report here. [PDF]
  • Explore the 2012 leadership theme: Strengthening FHT Leadership and Governance.