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#AFHTO2023 materials now available to all members

All members can now access 2023 conference resources! Find out more about what your peers are up to below.

Resources:

• Opening plenary: Team-based care for all: Patient and Public Perspectives on the future of primary care slides and video
• Closing plenary: Many Hands, One Goal: Five everyday personal practices to elevate team-based success. (video)
• A3 OHT Integrated Patient Care Teams: The How, Who and Impetus Along the Way
• BC4 -Two Perspectives: Strengthening Mental Health and Addictions Support in your Community & Building your Mental Health and Addictions Clinic
• Winners from the AFHTO 2023 Bright Lights Awards
• Slide presentations from the concurrent sessions
• Online gallery of posters presented at the conference

On- Demand sessions

• D1-a – A Postal Code Visualization of Patient Distribution and Referrals to Mental Health and Psychiatry Programs at the Hamilton Family Health Team
• D1-b – Poppy: Robotic Process Automation for Population Health
• D1-c – Expanding Team Based Care Through Partnership
• D2-a – Working to the Full Scope of Practice – Nursing in Primary Care Offices
• D2-b – Introducing medical scribes: role redesign and practical tips
• D4-a – Primary Care and Improving Equity for People with Eating Disorders
• D4-b – Shifting Gears, Creating Clear Paths for Patients through Strategic Mental Health Navigation
• D4-c Innovative Partnership Between Public and Private Sector to Treat Patient’s with Addiction and Mental Health Challenges…The Right and Equitable Service at the Right Time
• D4-d – Anxiety Disorders and Major Depression in Primary Care: Supporting Clinicians and Patients through Evidence2Practice Ontario

Improving vaccination rates is as easy as 1 2 3 materials available

On Nov. 13 we co-hosted a webinar with Pfizer, focused on respiratory vaccination and primary care EMRs. Slides and videos are now available on our site.

News and updates including Prevention System Quality Index

• Prevention System Quality Index (PSQI) 2023 – series monitors Ontario’s progress on population-level policies and programs that can reduce the incidence of chronic disease- Ontario Health, Nov. 2023
• 121 additional training spots for NPs– Ministry of Health, Nov. 20, 2023
• Building Improvement Capacity and Capability with the Dosing Approach – Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Sep. 29, 2023
• The burden of post-acute COVID-19 symptoms in a multinational network cohort analysis– Nature Communications, Nov. 17, 2023

Navigating parental vaccine hesitancy: primary care practitioners’ approaches to discussing covid-19 vaccination

“We invite you to participate in a student study conducted by Dr. Maxwell Smith (PI), Faculty of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Western University. Co-Investigators include Micaela Forte, Dr. Jacob Shelley, and Dr. Gail Teachman. Our study examines how primary care practitioners described how children’s best interests influenced their navigation of parental COVID-19 vaccine decision-making. The study consists of a demographic information survey and one virtual interview. The Letter of Information and Consent Form is available for your review. If you are interested in participating or would like additional information, email Micaela Forte at mforte3@uwo.ca. Thank you for your consideration.”

2024/25 Quality Improvement Plans Launch, Nov. 22, 2023
Hosted by Ontario Health to share this year’s priorities and supporting documents. Register here.

New Horizons: A Conversation with Mayor Olivia Chow, Nov. 24, 2023
Part of the New Horizons Speaker Series: Navigating toward the future of family medicine hosted by UofT Family Medicine. Register here.

Advancing Equitable Healthcare for People with Sickle Cell Disease, Dec. 7, 2023
Ontario Health is hosting a webinar for hospital leaders and administrators, emergency department clinicians, quality improvement and equity specialists, and clinical educators to consider adopting and implementing the Sickle Cell Disease Quality Standard. Register here.

ECHO Care of the Elderly: Dementia, Jan. 10- Mar. 27, 2024
Hosted by Baycrest and North East Specialized Geriatric Centre, in partnership with Alzheimer Society (Ontario and Sudbury-Manitoulin North Bay & Districts). It’s open to providers in Ontario from all health care professions and is offered at no cost to participants. Register here.