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Member news
Marathon FHT: Marathon FHT celebrates community’s win on Ontario’s most-active list

Windsor FHT: featured in the second report from the Premier’s Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine and awarded grant to increase access to outpatient services for individual families affected by substance use.

Evidence of value
Two articles published by AFHTO members in Healthcare Quarterly’s April 2019 issue (full articles available to subscribers only):

• Aging at Home: A Portrait of Home-Based Primary Care across Canada– authors include Dr. Sabrina Akhtar, Toronto Western FHT, Dr. Mayura Loganathan, Mount Sinai Academic FHT and Dr. Thuy-nga Pham, South East Toronto FHT
• Innovation in Ontario’s Family Health Teams: How Palliative and Coordinated Care Programs are Filling Service Gaps and Keeping Patients at Home– authors include Debbie Korzeniowski, ED, and Dr. Helen Cluett, Prince Edward FHT, Lindsey O’Donnell, Couchiching FHT and our CEO, Kavita Mehta

Bright Lights confirmations sent
We hope you enjoyed the long weekend and the deadline extension. We sent confirmation to nomination contacts earlier today titled “AFHTO 2019 Conference: We Have Received Your Bright Lights Nomination”. Please check with your contact to ensure they received this email. If they haven’t received it in their inbox or junk mail, please email info@afhto.ca.

Photos and/or videos are due Thursday, July 11 with the release form.

And don’t forget to register for the AFHTO 2019 Conference since we announce the winners at the ceremony and not before!

Primary care virtual community – 10 high impact actions
Thank you to the attendees at the June 26 Primary Care Virtual Community Webinar on the U.K.’s 10 High Impact Actions. Dr. Robert Varnam, GP and Head of General Practice Development at the NHS England, delved into lessons learned in the UK to free up time to care, and create better joined-up care.

If you missed the event, you can join now and receive updates and registration details for the next session, taking place on September 25, 2019.

Strategies for managing chronic pain: moving beyond opioids
The Opioid Clinical Primer’s fifth course, Strategies for Managing Chronic Pain: Moving beyond Opioids, has launched.  It’s a new certified continued professional development course on Machealth that helps health professionals in Ontario to best encourage collaboration with patients to use non-pharmacologic strategies to manage chronic non-cancer pain.
This free course can be accessed online, anytime, at opioids.machealth.ca.

Guelph FHT annual report

The Guelph Family Health Team 2018-2019 Annual Report is available to read online. Learn about the work they do to provide patient-guided quality focused care. Click here to view the full report.

Call for Abstracts – Traumatic Brain Injury Conference, Feb. 7, 2020
Submit your abstract to the TBI Conference held in February. Deadline for submissions are on September 20th. Learn more here.

ECHO Liver: Liver Disease in Primary Care: Approach To Hepatitis C, July 11, 2019
Join the ECHO Liver evening series as they hold a lecture based on real team and patient cases on Hepatitis C. Learn more here.

Considerations for Primary Care Teams as a Not-for-Profit Corporation, July 17, 2019
Join AFHTO & Grant Thornton LLP for their second webinar in the Financial Webinar Series. Register here.

Save the Date – ECHO Ontario Conference, Jan. 31, 2020
Stay tuned for the conference agenda and registration to open this Fall 2019. Learn more here.

AFHTO 2019 Conference, September 19- 20, 2019
Members get 50% off registration; plus early bird rates are in effect! Get your member access code from your administrator and come explore Health System Integration Built on The Foundation of Team-Based Primary Health Care. Register now!