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Got a bold idea? Submit your “Wild Card” abstract for AFHTO’s 2025 Conference by June 16!

Wild cards welcome to AFHTO 2025 Power of Primary Care Conference

 

Every year we receive brilliant abstracts that defy categorization, and we welcome them. That’s why we created the Wild Card category under the conference theme: Meeting Needs, Advancing Equity: The Power of Comprehensive, Patient-Partnered Care.

Instead of shoehorning them into a theme that doesn’t quite fit, and suffering by comparison, now wild cards can show up as their unique selves.

Call for abstracts – AFHTO’s The Power of Primary Care

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS NOW OPEN

This is more than a showcase. It’s a design session for the future.

 

Ontario’s primary care system is under a spotlight — and finally, under serious consideration. Investments are coming. Expectations are rising. And the window to shape what's next is wide open.

Ingersoll NPLC and Thamesvalley FHT improve access for unattached patients

Sentinel Review published an article on May 15, 2025

By Jacob Robinson

The new Roulston's Pharmacy location in Tillsonburg has been selected to house the Oxford Ontario Health Team's unattached care clinic.

The clinic -- located at 671 Broadway St, Unit 112 -- is designed to support residents without access or unattached to a family doctor or nurse practitioner.

Minister of Health Sylvia Jones helps celebrate five years of RC VTAC with Petawawa Centennial FHT

County of Renfrew published an article on Mar 31, 2025

A made-in-Renfrew-County solution to address health-care needs in response to COVID-19, launched mere days after the declaration of the global pandemic, has marked its fifth anniversary as it continues to evolve to provide impactful service for residents who do not have access to primary care.

Elliot Lake Family Health Team to host monthly mammogram bus

Elliott Lake Today published an article on Mar 20, 2025

By Lisa Rene-de-Cotret

The Elliot Lake Family Health Team (ELFHT) is excited to announce a new initiative focused on enhancing women’s health in our community.

On March 24, 2025, a designated mammogram bus will leave for Sudbury to offer crucial breast cancer screening services to ten local residents.