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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 pasted below.

AFHTO 2012 Conference: Call for Presentation Submissions

Share your knowledge and experience with your peers in Family Health Teams to "Demonstrate and Celebrate the Value of Family Health Teams". The conference takes place October 16 and 17, 2012 at the Toronto Hilton

Submit an abstract

Click here to access the online form for submission of an abstract for a workshop, oral presentation, or poster. Timeline:
  • Deadline for submission: May 25, 2012
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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 has met or exceeded the provincial targets set for:

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AFHTO welcomes Ontario’s focus on family and community care

Primary care is fundamental to the health of patients and our health system. Family Health Teams have been working hard to innovate, to improve care, and from that, to improve health. For this reason, AFHTO is pleased to see the Ontario Government is placing “Family Health Care at the Centre of the System”.

AFHTO response to Globe and Mail comment about FHTs

On January 17, Globe and Mail columnist Adam Radwanski wrote about the upcoming MOHLTC-OMA negotiations, focusing on costs and value for money (echoing the Auditor General of Ontario’s report). Unfortunately he used the term “family health team” when he was refering to physicians in capitated models in his statement, “The province will continue trying to get more family doctors away from fee-for-service.

Progress in developing AFHTO’s infrastructure

AFHTO is pleased to announce that it will soon reach another of its objectives from the 2011-13 Strategic Plan – to have a full-time Executive Director, at least one additional staff member, and an office.  On February 1 AFHTO will move into shared office space on College Street in Toronto, close to Ontario government offices and many of the other associations and agencies with whom we collaborate.