Connecting People to Home and Community Care Act, 2020 (Bill 175) – AFHTO’s Submission
On June 17, AFHTO presented its submission to the Standing Committee on the Legislative Assembly on Bill 175: Connecting People to Home and Community Care Act, 2020. Our key recommendations are: Delay the passage of Bill 175, Connecting People to Home and Community Care Act, 2020– Delay the passage of Bill 175, Connecting People to […]
AFHTO’s Submission on Bill 74: The People’s Health Care Act, 2019
On April 2 AFHTO presented its submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy on Bill 74: The People’s Health Care Act, 2019. Our key recommendations are: 1. That Bill 74 require primary care to be part of an Ontario Health Team (OHT). It is also recommended that primary care teams be the lead of […]
The most effective outreach for patients overdue for cancer screening, according to St. Michael’s Hospital Academic FHT
By Tara Kiran, MD, MSc, Sam Davie, MSc, Rahim Moineddin, PhD, and Aisha Lofters, MD, PhD; St. Michael’s Academic FHT Background: There is good evidence that cancer-specific patient outreach improves rates of cervical, breast, and colorectal cancer screening. However, it is unclear how primary care practices should implement integrated outreach for all 3 types of cancer screening. They […]
Data to Decisions: Advancing Primary Care
Data to Decisions: Advancing Primary Care is a membership-wide report on performance in primary care. It helps local teams see where they stack up against their peers on a small number of measures. QIDS Specialist Host & Partnership Forum: The September 1st, 2015 forum was attended by over 90 QIDS specialists and QIDS specialist host and […]
EDAC meeting report: Shaping the future of MOHLTC contracts and the “Primary Care Guarantee”
Yesterday’s meeting (Aug. 20) of AFHTO’s Executive Director Advisory Council (EDAC) included preliminary discussion to prepare AFHTO for advocacy on behalf of members on two key topics: The contractual relationship between Ministry and primary care organizations Shaping the Ontario government’s “Primary Care Guarantee” Towards the next Ministry contract Current contracts between MOHLTC and FHTs will […]
Advancing a Performance-Oriented Model for Primary Care
Advancing a Performance-Oriented Model for Primary Care One of AFHTO’s strategic directions is to build evidence of FHT performance and value to patient health is. Key to this is the capacity of FHTs to make the IT/IM investments needed to capture and report data consistently and reliably, and to use it for improvement. Consistent with […]
Toward a Primary Care Recruitment & Retention Strategy for Ontario
The Association of Family Health Teams (AFHTO), the Association of Ontario Health Centres (AOHC) and the Nurse Practitioners’ Association of Ontario (NPAO) are pleased to share our joint report with our members. Toward a Primary Care Recruitment & Retention Strategy for Ontario (PDF 1.3MB) It has been a challenge for primary care organizations to recruit […]