Team-Based Care: Making it a reality for all

The AFHTO 2023 Conference program is built around 4 core themes.

1. Using a population-based approach to provide care to the community
2. Optimising teams’ capacity and creating efficiencies
3. Organizing primary care to advance Ontario Health Teams
4. Embedding mental health and home care in primary care

ConFERENCE Theme Descriptions

Download a printable PDF of the theme descriptions here.

1. Using a population-based approach to provide care to the community

Topics of interest include (but aren’t limited to):

• Expanding access to teams for unattached patients
• Partnerships to facilitate population-based health approaches
• Utilising data to inform population-based planning
• Collaborative governance / Governance at the OHT level

2. Optimising teams’ capacity and creating efficiencies

Topics of interest include (but aren’t limited to):

• Triage in a world of virtual online booking
• Focus on non-digital methods of integration including back-office integration, common clinical pathways, cross-team collaborations/regional approaches to care
• Creating operational efficiencies through digital health tools
• Interprofessional Health Providers and full scope of practice
• Staff and provider wellness
• Recruitment and retention

3. Organizing primary care to advance Ontario Health Teams

Topics of interest include (but aren’t limited to):

• Building Primary Care Networks- success case studies
• Integrating Primary Care Networks with OHTs
• Jurisdictional review of organized primary care

4. Embedding mental health and home care in primary care

Topics of interest include (but aren’t limited to):

• Increasing access to mental health and addictions support at the population level
• Supporting Mental Health Promotion & Prevention (including support for Children and Youth)
• Mental health pathways in Ontario Health Teams
• Primary Care in the home
• Increasing collaborations between providers