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Cancer screening rockstars needed
Don’t leave your team’s stories untold!
In a recent Bits & Pieces, you may have seen Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario)’s guidance for resuming breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening. In collaboration with our primary care partners and Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario), we will host a webinar to further explore this document and share stories from teams resuming cancer screening.
If your team has initiated a cancer screening program to resume and catch up on screening, please fill this member initiative webform to let us know! If you are interested in sharing your story during our webinar, please email Sandeep Gill sandeep.gill@afhto.ca by this Friday, Mar. 26.
Questions? Email us at improve@afhto.ca
Reminder- Supporting Older Persons at Home, March 25
COVID-19 highlighted numerous barriers and challenges to providing integrated care for older persons living in the community.
Join Provincial Geriatrics Leadership Ontario in a discussion on how to better support older persons in the community using lessons learned during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We will discuss needs in primary care – focusing on the role of interprofessional teams – and offer some resources and tools to better support team-based care for older persons.
We will also discuss how specialized geriatric service programs in your area can provide support to primary care clinicians.
COVID-19 vaccine roll-out & hesitancy in Indigenous communities
Indigenous communities are prioritized for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, but the historic reasons for that prioritization-including systemic racism- may also contribute to vaccine hesitancy within the communities.
In response we have compiled resources from Akausivik Inuit FHT and Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority to help combat it. Visit our site for the full list.
Guidance on phase 2 prioritization for COVID-19 vaccination and more
Recent updates include:
- Guidance on Phase 2 Prioritization for COVID-19 Vaccination– Ministry of Health, Mar. 22, 2021
- March 19th Update on COVID-19 Vaccination Roll Out– AFHTO, Mar. 19, 2021
- Extension of the Second Dose Interval Key Messages– Ministry of Health, Mar. 19, 2021
- What office-based interventions in primary care help reduce vaccine hesitancy? Tools for Practice, March 22, 2021
- 911 Fact Sheets for foreign workers – available in English, French, Arabic, Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, Filipino (Tagalog), Thai, and Vietnamese, Ministry of Health, Mar. 17, 2021
- COVID-19: Guidance for Prioritizing Health Care Workers for COVID-19 Vaccination – Ministry of Health, updated Mar. 18, 2021
We continue to update several pages on our site with resources and news:
- Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Updates– the original page, with news and Ministry situation reports (please note that the Ministry Situation Reports on COVID-19 are posted daily so review them to better understand the provincial response)
- COVID-19 Vaccination Information
- COVID-19 assessment centres in Ontario
- COVID-19 information for Patients, Caregivers and the Public
- Infection control resources and tools for primary care
- H+K Memos and Insight Notes on Government Press Releases
- Management and operations, human resources and COVID-19
- Mental health and wellness during COVID-19
- Providing Comprehensive Care During COVID-19
- Resources for Re-opening
- Virtual Care, Digital Health and COVID-19
National Newcomer Navigation Network – N4
N4 is a national network for professionals from Canada’s Healthcare and Social Service sectors to connect, learn and collaborate in their work with newcomers (immigrants and refugees).
While newcomers make up over 20% of Canadians and face many barriers to receiving care or services, they are often overlooked as needing help to navigate our systems.
N4 provides a one-stop platform for professional development, education, virtual discussions, networking, and the sharing of data and resources. N4 promotes inter-sectoral collaboration to encourage sharing of expertise, economies of effort, and promotion of leading and best practices in the field of newcomer navigation.
Membership is free thanks to funding from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). You can become a member here.
Virtual health care for patients with developmental disabilities- study
A University of Toronto PhD candidate is currently recruiting for a study on virtual primary care for adults with developmental disabilities. This work is being conducted together with the Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre at CAMH.
The goal is to learn how to deliver high quality virtual care to patients with developmental disabilities, when virtual care is not appropriate, and what supports are needed to be successful. As part of this study they are interviewing primary care providers.
If anyone is interested in learning more about the study you can contact avra.selick@camh.ca or 416-535-8501 x30127.
Excellence through Quality Improvement (E-QIP) Conference
The Excellence through Quality Improvement Project (E-QIP), Quality Improvement Innovations: Understand-Pivot-Change 2021 Conference will be on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. Hosted by CMHA Ontario, this one-day virtual conference is being offered for FREE.
It will bring together Ontario’s leading quality improvement experts in the mental health and addiction sector. Visit their site.
Wise Practices for COVID Vaccinators, Mar. 23, 2021
Learn how to actively design and deliver vaccination services to support high quality, safe experiences for Indigenous patients. You’ll walk away with wise practices & strategies for working in a culturally safe & respectful way.
Find out more here.
BounceBack refresher webinar, Mar. 25, 2021
The BounceBack communications and marketing team invites you to a 30-minute refresher presentation on BounceBack, a free CBT skill-building program designed to help individuals 15+ manage low mood, mild to moderate anxiety or depression, stress or worry.
OHT Virtual Engagement Series Second Session (RISE OHT Webinar), Mar. 25, 2021
Join the Ministry as they discuss the details around the core components of the OHT Performance Measurement Framework. They’ll be identifying Cohort 1 OHT-selected indicators and OHT evaluation approaches to help you understand OHT evaluation and key measurement supports.
Learn more here.
Foundations to QI (IDEAS) Program e-Learning Course, Mar. 31 & Apr. 1, 2021
E-QIP is holding this comprehensive introductory QI course designed for the community mental health sector. You’ll be well versed in a common language and approach to QI with the aim of improving client care, experience and outcomes after this course.
Find out more here.
Lessons from vaccine pilots, evolving guidance, and more, Mar 26, 2021
The COVID-19 CoP, held by the OCFP and the University of Toronto DFCM, will be discussing lessons learned and new guidance around COVID-19 vaccines and rollout.
Learn more here.
ECHO Managing COVID-19 in Primary Care, Starting Apr. 13, 2021
UHN’s ECHO series is back- now with 12 parts. Join other primary care providers in this interactive online program.
Find out more here.
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