Click here to register for the Effective Governance for Quality in Primary Care Workshop, Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 10:30 am to 4:30 pm, Westin Harbour Castle, One Harbour Square, Toronto, Ontario. Click here for more information about this program. This session is FREE for board chairs/members, executive directors and lead MD/NPs of AFHTO member organizations.
Click here to register for the QIDS Professional Development Workshop, Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 10:30 am to 7:00 pm, Westin Harbour Castle, One Harbour Square, Toronto, Ontario. Click here for more information about this program. AFHTO has requested funding from the Ministry to cover some or all of the costs of this learning program. Remaining costs will be covered through registration fees that could be FREE or to UP TO a maximum of $250 per person. AFHTO will contact registered participants to confirm the fee once the Ministry funding letter is received.
All Conference Attendees: Register before the early-bird deadline, September 15, 2014 to save $75 on your registration. Click here for more information on conference fees and refund policies.
Contact your administrator to receive the discount code for the membership rate. Members who have paid their 2014-15 membership dues have received their discount code; all others will receive their code once payment is received.
$50 discount provided to all concurrent session presenters (max 2 per session), concurrent session working group members, registration desk volunteers and awards review committee members. The discount can be combined for those who contribute in more than one capacity (e.g. a presenter who also serves on the awards review committee could receive a $100 discount).
Concurrent Session Presenters: discount codes will be sent by June 25, 2014 to the contact person for your presentation. Each presentation will receive a single code that can be used for a maximum of two registrations.
Conference Working Group Members: discount codes will be sent by June 25, 2014 to individual members who have completed their commitment to their working group.
Other: Discount codes will be sent to registration desk volunteers and awards review committee members.
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The deadline for the original D2D 1.0 request is past. However you can prepare to request this data for D2D 2.0 by reviewing the permissions required below. Please copy and paste the following text into an email after you have inserted your team’s information in the bold italics area and send it to Rick.glazier@ices.on.ca with copy to improve@afhto.ca. Prior to submitting this request, ensure that all physicians in the FHNs and FHOs in your health team are aware of the request and that none object to it. In response to this request, ICES will forward data at the FHN, FHO and FHT level for the indicators mentioned in the request. Individual physician data will NOT be provided through this request. However, individual physicians can access their own data through their Primary Care Practice (PCR) Report from HQO. When they receive the data from ICES for these indicators, teams may choose to contribute the FHT level data to D2D 1.0 or just retain the data for their own internal use. Refer to the data submission template for instructions on how to contribute FHT-level data. Note that FHN and FHO level data cannot be submitted to D2D 1.0. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dear Dr Glazier, Senior Scientist and Program Lead, Primary Care and Population Health,Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) Please consider this a request for data from ICES for our FHT for the following indicators: Regular primary care provider, readmissions within 30 days, cost per patient, colorectal and cervical cancer screening and SAMI score. The specific definitions of each of the indicators are as discussed in the D2D 1.0 documents produced by AFHTO. Please provide data for the physician groups listed in the table below. All physicians in each of the groups listed are aware of this request and none have objected to it.
| Physician payment group | FHN or FHO |
| [health team insert 4-digit alpha code] | [health team indicate whether code refers to a FHN or a FHO] |
Please forward the data to [Medical lead]. Signed on behalf of the [health team to insert name of FHT] Executive Director [typed full name is sufficient for email – please forward scanned image of signed document to AFHTO improve@afhto.ca] Medical Lead [typed full name is sufficient for email – please forward scanned image of signed document to AFHTO: improve@afhto.ca]
**This template will be made available by June 16, 2014** Please check here for further updates.
As promised, we are sharing with you the response we received from each of the three main political parties to the questions we had posed (see below). Click on the links to see responses (listed in the order they were received) from the:
Please make sure to vote! Angie Heydon Executive Director, AFHTO
Liberals have pledged to “Guarantee that every Ontarian has access to a primary care provider.” Details on this pledge were released this morning; it includes the statement – “Improve the recruitment and retention of community-based primary care teams.” Read more at http://kathleenwynne.ca/guaranteeing-primary-care-ontarians/ Other details about their health platform is found at – http://ontarioliberalplan.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Access-to-the-Right-Health-Care-at-the-Right-Time-in-the-Right-Place.pdf .
The plan largely builds on the vision advanced through the earlier PC party white papers on health care. The major health care commitments in the plan are as follows:
The major health care commitments outlined in the plan are as follows: YEAR 1:
YEAR 2:
Answers to the following questions have been requested by June 6. Response received will be sent to AFHTO members no later than June 10:
While AFHTO’s President and ED have been working at the provincial leadership level, AFHTO members have been active in their ridings and on social media. Among those attending a recent meeting of the ED Advisory Council, about one-quarter had met with their MPPs and about one-third intended to contact candidates. Materials to help you spread the word on the value of continuing investment in team-based primary care are posted on the AFHTO members-only website:
The Tungasuvvingat Inuit Family Health Team (TIFHT) was honoured with this award at a the “Prevent More to Treat Less” conference, jointly sponsored by the Association of Ontario Health Centres and the Association of Local Public Health Agencies, together with a range of partners including AFHTO. Since March 2011 TIFHT has provided Primary Health care services to Ottawa’s Inuit population. Nominated by Ottawa Public Health, the team was described as providing “innovative, holistic model of culturally safe, community-based primary care with interdisciplinary services that incorporate an understanding of the determinants of health and a respect for Inuit diversity, values, culture, language, knowledge and self-determination.” To enhance health equity, efficiency and effectiveness, TIFHT and Ottawa have developed a powerful partnership — a partnership that has ensured many more people from Ottawa’s Inuit community can access culturally appropriate services that address the communities most pressing health needs. 
TIFHT has facilitated community engagement, informed needs assessments, adapted health education resources, and influenced public health approaches to collectively identify priority health concerns. This has been accomplished through ongoing dialogue, sharing promising practices, community consultations, and Elder participation in service and program planning. This integration of public health into primary care services has meant clients who might otherwise avoid mainstream health services get the supports they need. Both Ottawa Public Health and the Tungasuvvingat Inuit Family Health Team are focused on controlling communicable diseases. Working together they have enhanced access to testing, treatment and vaccines. They also have designated liaisons, and developed collaborative case management. Both organizations also want to improve the oral health of the Inuit Community in Ottawa. They are working together they run a monthly dental screening clinic, located at the Family Health Team’s site. And now this dynamic partnership is in the process of developing joint activities related to smoking cessation and suicide prevention. This is an excellent example of how working together Public Health and Primary Health Care providers can promote population health and advance health equity for a population that is vulnerable to poor health.
Dear fellow AFHTO members: Are you interested in serving on the AFHTO board of directors? The Governance Committee of AFHTO’s board invites anyone who works within an AFHTO member organization to apply. Please share this call for nominations with all who work in your team. FIVE people are to be elected for a 3-year term on the 14-member AFHTO board. The AFHTO by-laws call for balanced representation on the board to include the various forms of governance, the regions of the province, and the mix of the professions working within FHTs, NPLCs and other interprofessional models. In reviewing the composition of nine continuing board members, priority for the five directors to be elected will be given to candidates who are:
To apply:
The Governance Committee of the AFHTO board will review all applications to assist the AFHTO board to determine the slate of candidates to recommend to the AFHTO membership for election at the AFHTO annual general meeting.
Wednesday October 15, 2014 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM The Westin Harbour Castle 1 Harbour Square Toronto, Ontario M5J 1A6
Sincerely, Jennifer Kennedy Chair, Governance Committee AFHTO Board of Directors Executive Director, North Renfrew Family Health Team