Congratulations to 4 Family Health Teams profiled in Health Quality Ontario’s 2012 Report
Four AFHTO members are profiled as “Examples of success” found in the 2012 Report on Ontario’s Health System from Health Quality Ontario, released today: Thames Valley FHT (Byron and Victoria Family Medical centres) for reducing waits for appointments and missed-appointment rates – page 59 London FHT for improved outcomes for COPD patients – page 60 […]
Aug.15 is deadline to apply to MOHLTC for financial support for PA positions
MOHLTC has e-mailed the invitation below to FHTs. Please follow up with your Ministry rep to get the full package, if you did not receive it. SENT: July 24, 2012 4:57 PM SUBJECT: FHT – Employment supports for physician assistant graduates 2012 Dear Family Health Team, The Ministry of Health and Long Term Care has […]
“Bright Lights” award nominations: opportunity for grant to attend IHI Conference
The first ever “Bright Lights” awards will be presented at the AFHTO 2012 Conference Awards Dinner, on October 16. This award program recognizes the leadership, outstanding work and significant progress being made to improve the value delivered by Family Health Teams. There are 11 award categories corresponding to the themes of the AFHTO 2012 Conference. In […]
Primary Care Nursing Task Force Report
The Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario launched a task force, bringing together key stakeholders to review the role of almost 4,300 primary care nurses (RNs and RPNs) currently practising in Ontario. The Task Force focused on two progressive phases of outcomes. The first phase identifies the highest level of RN and RPN scope of practice […]
Ontario Think Tank on Public Health and Primary Care Collaboration
Please find the proceedings from a full day Think Tank on strengthening collaboration between public health and primary care held on April 19, 2012 at the offices of Public Health Ontario in Toronto, Ontario. AFHTO’s Executive Director, Angie Heydon, participated in the Think Tank. Other participants included policy makers, decision-makers, front line practitioners and academics. […]
AFHTO 2012 Conference: 1 week left to submit presentation abstracts and award nominations
May 25th is the deadline to submit presentation abstracts and award nominations for the AFHTO 2012 conference – Demonstrating and Celebrating the Value of Family Health Teams. We encourage you take this opportunity to share all of the great work you are doing in and for FHTs before the deadline. Please review the submission requirements […]
Updates on OMA-MOHLTC negotiations
Both parties involved in the negotiations have posted the following public statements: May 7 response from OMA – https://www.oma.org/Mediaroom/PressReleases/Pages/CutstoHealthCare.aspx May 7 response from MOHLTC – http://news.ontario.ca/mohltc/en/2012/05/ontario-freezing-doctor-pay-to-invest-in-more-community-care-for-families-and-seniors.html May 3 news release from OMA – https://www.oma.org/Mediaroom/PressReleases/Pages/NegotiateFairly.aspx April 27 response from Minister of Health http://news.ontario.ca/mohltc/en/2012/04/statement-from-ontarios-health-minister.html April 24 news release from OMA — https://www.oma.org/Mediaroom/PressReleases/Pages/DoctorsOfferOfA2YearFreezeOnFeesRejectedByGovernment.aspx April 12 response from OMA […]
AFHTO 2012 Conference: “Bright Lights” Award Nominations
The 2012 AFHTO Conference is all about “Demonstrating and Celebrating the Value of Family Health Teams.” To help us do this, AFHTO is launching “Bright Lights” – a brand new program to recognize the leadership, outstanding work and significant progress being made to improve the value delivered by Family Health Teams. The conference is being […]
Drummond Commission – “Family Health Teams should become the norm for primary care”
“Family Health Teams should become the norm for primary care” The statement above appears on p.24 of the 543-page Drummond Commission report, released this afternoon. Consuming over 40% of the province’s budget, health care receives much attention in this report (pp.145-202). There are a number of recommendations that are specific to FHTs/primary care, and are […]
Quality Planning – accelerating Queen’s FHT’s ability to meet targets
The Queen’s Family Health Team (QFHT), an academic teaching clinic with 22 family physicians, 20 nursing and allied health members and 50+ family medicine residents rotating through the clinic, embarked on a quality improvement process in 2008. QFHT has established a Quality Plan and framework to systematically improve quality across the team. The team […]