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OurCare final report now available
The final OurCare report is now available, together with a refreshed website (OurCare.ca). The largest public engagement on the future of primary care in Canada, it introduces the OurCare Standards, “six simple statements that summarize what every person in Canada should expect from the primary care system”. The first is:
“Everyone has a relationship with a primary care clinician who works with other health professionals in a publicly funded team.”
Read Dr. Tara Kiran’s thread for more.
Member stories
Cottage Country FHT- Cottage Country Family Health Team unsuccessful In Expression of Interest for expanding care services in Gravenhurst and Muskoka Lakes
Couchiching FHT- A $2.4-million booster from the province aims to bring primary care to 19,000 residents
Georgian Bay FHT – Ontario Government investing $880K in primary health care in Simcoe-Grey area
Peterborough FHT- expands services, appointments for unattached patients at clinic
Prince Edward FHT- opens new community clinic despite lack of funding
MOH seeking feedback on proposed OHT designation requirements
A new regulation under the Connecting Care Act, 2019 is being proposed that would outline requirements that OHTs would be required to meet to be eligible for potential designation. MOH is soliciting written feedback. PCC will provide input, but members are welcome to do so as well. Deadline April 8, 2024.
Reminder- Charity Village course deadline extended to March 6
On January 16 we sent an email to EDs/Admin leads, board chairs, and lead clinicians subject “Governance support update- deadline February 16” regarding partnership with Charity Village and other governance topics. The deadline to sign up for free governance courses has now been extended to March 6.
This course is sold out:
- Diversity, Sensitivity, and Inclusion Training
But these still have limited space available:
- Better Board Kit
- Governing Your Organization: A Deeper Dive
- OHSA and AODA Compliance Training Package for Leaders and Supervisors
- OHSA and AODA Compliance Training Package for Employees
- IDEA Fundamentals
Descriptions are here (access only available at triad level). If you would like to sign up, please email info@afhto.ca before March 6.
Primary care physicians enabling integrated care
“This program provides Mainpro+ certification to integrated health care teams (i.e., OHTs), so that family physicians can earn Mainpro+ credits for participating in their sessions. There are two ways to make use of this program:
- Participate in the OCFP’s certified program and earn Mainpro+ credits while facilitating initial discussions regarding the development of integrated health care teams. This program has been created by the OCFP, in partnership with the Association of Family Health Teams (AFHTO), Ontario Medical Association (OMA) and Section on General Family Practice (SGFP).
- Certify your own sessions or programs that provide learning opportunities for family doctors.
Learn more and access the resources here.”
News and updates including TELUS Indigenous Communities Fund
- TELUS Indigenous Communities Fund – members and/or partners may be eligible; deadline March 29, 2024.
- Blood–brain barrier disruption and sustained systemic inflammation in individuals with long COVID-associated cognitive impairment – Nature Neuroscience, Feb. 22, 2024
- Fostering collective leadership to improve integrated primary care: lessons learned from the PriCARE program – Archives of Public Health, Feb. 22, 2024
- Prevalence of persistent SARS-CoV-2 in a large community surveillance study– Nature, Feb. 21, 2024
- Why Do I Keep Getting COVID-19 but Those Around Me Don’t? – Time, Feb. 8, 2024; original study, Nature Communications here.
Connect with your peers using AFHTO’s IHP Directory
IHPs in AFHTO member teams are encouraged to sign up to AFHTO’s IHP Directory! This directory will help improve AFHTO’s communication to IHPs, and it will support IHP networking, information sharing, and collaboration.
After you sign up, you will be emailed a link to a spreadsheet with the names, professions, team names, and work emails of all IHPs who have signed up for open communication. You may sort by profession to see the names of those in the same discipline as you.
AFHTO will be checking the directory and emailing links to new registrants every 1-2 weeks. We look forward to improved communication from AFHTO to IHPs, and across IHPs in AFHTO-member teams!
Recognizing, identifying, and supporting the engagement of youth providing care (rise up): now with co-design workshops
University Health Network researchers are interested in learning about your experience with young caregivers. The survey will ask about your clinical background, familiarity, and encounters with young caregivers, understanding of the impact that caring can have on young people, and support for young caregivers. The survey is available here. You can input your email for a gift card raffle at the end.
For clinicians interested in improving the healthcare interactions of young caregivers, contact isabelle.caven@uhn.ca to participate in one or a series of co-design workshops in March 2024 ($50 gift card honorariums provided). They’re co-creating, with healthcare providers and young caregivers across Canada, innovative solutions to support young people’s interactions with the healthcare system in their caring roles.
Empowering Health Care and Social Service Professionals: New Clinical Guidelines on Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults, Feb. 29, 2024
Hosted by the Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health. Learn more.
On-Line CBT Training Workshops, Mar-Jun 2024
McMaster University is offering a 7-week online course in the Fundamentals of CBT and 14 separate One-Day Virtual Advanced CBT workshops. Register here.
Heart to Heart: Communication Skills Essential in Caring for Patients with Advanced Illness, Mar. 3, 2024
One-day retreat funded by the government of Ontario. Register here.
Breathe Change Policy Forum Series, Mar. 7, 21 and Apr. 18, 2024
Hosted by The Lung Health Foundation. Find out more here.
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