Guide for Interprofessional Primary Care Teams – Roles, Responsibilities, and Scopes of practice

Dear Members,  

AFHTO has released updated guidance regarding roles, responsibilities, and scopes of practices within the Interprofessional Primary Health Care Team. The guidance document is available on AFHTO’s website. This document has been validated by relevant associations and stakeholders to ensure it captures critical and updated information – we thank our colleagues and stakeholders for their efforts and collaboration with this work.
 
Though extensive, this document does not serve as an exhaustive review of health care practitioners and their potential roles in a primary care team or a replacement of the current roles and responsibilities you may have identified within your IHP team. Rather, it serves as a guide to provide basic information to aid in the design, coordination, and scope of work of an Interprofessional Primary Health Care Team.

Next Steps:  
Collaboratively with our partners, we will hold a webinar series which will focus on each scope of practice. The purpose of this is to bring colleagues together and have a deep dive conversation around challenges, success factors, and changing roles using the guidance document as a starting point. Plans are underway to begin this work in Summer 2023. This discussion will also be included as a session at AFHTO’s conference this Fall.
 
Going forward, the guidance document will be updated as required to be inclusive of the full scope of practice within the interprofessional health team and to reflect the changing roles and responsibilities. The webinar series and conference session will inform the next update.  

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.