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Are your patients sick and tired of surveys? Are you? There are other ways besides surveys to find out what patients care about. Consider partnering with us to host a local focus group about patient priorities for quality in primary care. Get a clearer picture of ALL the work you do: Nurse Practitioners at Thames Valley FHT are using their own data about patient visits to show what they really do. What’s missing from your picture?  AFHTO members are a bright light in research! There were nine presentations and posters from AFHTO members and staff at last week’s Trillium Primary Care Research Day. Check out this page to see how the AFHTO story is travelling out to people across North America. Speaking of Bright Lights…. Nominate one of your team’s programs for a Bright Lights award, and help spread your innovations across Ontario. Nominations open in mid-June –check out last year’s winners for inspiration. Coming soon: Updated Data Dictionary for D2D 5.0. The eagle-eyed QIDS Specialists are currently reviewing a draft. Look for the final version in late June.

Help spread the word about D2D – invite others to sign up for the eBulletin.

Watch for your next team-level Primary Care Practice Report (PCPR). HQO has indicated that it’s coming your way in the first week of June, if you signed up by March 31, 2017. Check it out: PCPR was in D2D; now D2D is in the PCPR! The summary pages now include links to D2D. All D2D elements, including the new demographic indicators, are highlighted to help you with data submission. If you haven’t done so already, now is your last chance to get a PCPR in time for D2D 5.0. Sign up by June 30 to receive the August report – just in time for D2D 5.0 data submission (open mid-August through mid-September). You want to know what it takes to get better – so we’re asking you. New contextual indicators in D2D 5.0 (everything from board structure to EMR data access) will paint a picture of what makes some teams so successful in their improvement efforts. Like everything else in D2D, participation is optional. Still fresh: Check out the last eBulletin for news about Patient Priority Focus Groups, help for patients with depression, an upcoming QIDSS KTE day, and more!

Help spread the word about D2D – invite others to sign up for the eBulletin.

UPDATE on treatment-resistant depression study: If you have older patients with depression who are not responding well to treatment, you can participate in a study that will help you help them get better outcomes, while also contributing to knowledge about the best way to address this problem. Register here for a webinar on June 8. You may also want to consider being part of a depression-specific IDEAS cohort. Get Moving! AFHTO members attending the physical activity day in March are now getting moving on a new clinical community of practice for ANYONE interested in supporting physical activity. They are already accumulating resources to share  and will likely be getting together again at the AFHTO conference. Watch here or contact AFHTO for more information. Let’s hear even more from the patients! Even though it was challenging, nearly 250 patients responded to our second-ever Patient Priorities questionnaire. Whether or not yours were among them, consider partnering up with us to host a patient focus group to deepen our insights and improve the process. QIDS Specialists, QIDSS-likes, and other QI professionals: Don’t forget to register for our June 13 KTE on Program Planning and Quality Improvement. Some travel support is available. Registration opens up for everyone after May 15. Check out our FAQ or contact us for details. Don’t forget to share your completed Schedule A templates for the Program Performance Measures Catalogue. Many of your peers, who are seeing the value of getting a refreshed catalogue sooner and being able to reach out to one another, are doing this. Thanks! Still wondering what the catalogue can do for you, and how sharing your template will help make it better? Here’s a great example from the Occupational Therapists network: “OTs are working together to compile evidence to evaluate the measures for our priority programs (e.g., Falls Prevention and Chronic Pain) and then choose ones that are evidence-based and accurately reflect our contribution to the team. Then we’ll encourage all our teams to use these measures in future Schedule A submissions and keep sharing their templates with AFHTO.”  

Help spread the word about D2D – invite others to sign up for the eBulletin.

Getting even better than we were yesterday, no matter how good we already are. Here are some concrete steps  to move beyond measurement to improvement, based on the wisdom of AFHTO’s own IHPs. Did you use the Program Performance Measures Catalogue in preparing your AOP submission? You can make it more useful by sharing your completed Schedule A templates and sending us your feedback. Keeping patients at the centre of quality measurement: There is no question this is hard to do – and so far, nearly 150 patients have completed  a patient priorities survey .  It is not an easy survey but some of your patients may still welcome the chance to make their voices heard. Aussi disponible en Français! For more information about what’s in the survey and why, check out our Frequently Asked Questions. Is there something your team has gotten better at? Can others learn from what you’ve done (even if it is what NOT to do!)? Submit an abstract to the AFHTO 2017 Conference by May 8^th. Help for treatment-resistant depression: Do you have older patients whose depression has not responded to medication? Want to participate in research to help find the best care for them? Coming soon: Your chance to work with AFHTO and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health on new research into what works best for these patients. Watch this space for more details. Save the date! QIDSS KTE on program planning – Tuesday, June 13^th at the YMCA Toronto Central. Travel support is available if needed. Registration opens soon! Wondering how to help your patients get active? We’re planning a phone meeting tomorrow to talk about if and how to support a Community of Practice to promote physical activity in primary care. All interested clinicians are welcome. Let us know if you’d like an invite.

Help spread the word about D2D – invite others to sign up for the eBulletin.

Some members have found the patient priorities survey long and complex and not something everyone (or ANYONE!) would want to do. All the same, some patients still want to do it. We are pleased that nearly 70 have already completed it. This data will refresh the way the Quality Roll-Up score is calculated so we can learn even more about how AFHTO members deliver high-quality, patient-centered care that is linked to lower healthcare system costs. This matters to patients. That is why they helped create this survey. It is also why they are sharing it with others so they can decide for themselves if they want to help in this important work. They invite you to do the same. To help in that regard, we have summarized and addressed some of the questions coming from members. Get moving on getting your patients moving: Check out the information from last month’s Get Moving! event. It’s full of ideas about how to use physical activity to improve all kinds of outcomes, from mental health to healthy aging in seniors, chronic disease management, and general well-being. Measuring beyond the “body parts:” With D2D, AFHTO members are measuring quality in a way that reflects what matters to patients as well as to providers. LHIN physician leads from across the province have just had a taste of it and now they’ve got an appetite to hear more – from you! Reach out to the primary care and quality physician leads in your region (ask us if you need help identifying them) and keep the conversation going. Check out the “cheat sheet” for talking points. Help all Ontarians receive the best possible care! HQO is looking for health care professionals to join the new Ontario Quality Standards Committee. This is a unique opportunity to share with others what we are learning together about patient-centered measurement. Read more or sign up here. What do you think about QIPs? Speak your mind! AFHTO will be working with HQO to make the QIP process better for next year. Tell us what works and what would make it better: More clarity? More guidance? Format changes? Our voices are stronger together, so even if you’ve already given feedback directly, please share it with us and increase our collective impact. We’re hiring: See our Careers section for more details.

Help spread the word about D2D – invite others to sign up for the eBulletin.

AFHTO members are using D2D 4.1 to improve: Watch the D2D 4.1 webinar (again!) to hear how your peers are using D2D to narrow down their focus for QI, trend progress over time, and connect with LHINs in sub-region planning. You could get more QIDSS! MOHLTC is open to proposals. Consider checking out these resources for information on how to make a solid business case for expanding QIDSS to a full FTE, create new partnerships and/or reconfigure existing partnerships. MOHLTC is also open to proposals for additional IHP staff. Contact us for more information. Options for the “Access” indicator in your QIP: If you are looking for a better way to report “access” in your QIP, remember that you are NOT required to use the “same/next day” indicator.  Check out these options. Coming this Fall: D2D 5.0! Keep an eye on our D2D Planning & Preparation page for information about new indicators and updates to our tools. À Bientôt! AFHTO’s second Patient Priorities Questionnaire is coming soon in English and French. Watch for it coming early in April. Read about the 2014 survey here.