AFHTO 2020 Conference: JUST ONE WEEK LEFT to submit your abstract and nomination

Working group volunteers have met for inspiring and fruitful brainstorming this week. Don’t be surprised if you hear from them soon, especially if you have insight into the topics below. Among other topics, your peers want to hear about: Lived experience of Black, Indigenous and other visible minority patients- straight from the source Rural […]
AFHTO 2020 Conference: what we want to see

Here’s what we want to hear from you. These are the topics we’ll explore for our 5 core themes. We want interactive sessions for the live presentations, and we encourage creativity. As long as we can deliver it in a virtual format, we want to hear about it. […]
AFHTO 2020 Conference: call for submissions

It’s time to highlight primary care. Present your ideas and initiatives at the AFHTO 2020 Conference: Tectonic shifts: rebuilding primary care in a new world We asked and you answered. This year’s conference will be a streamlined virtual event- a little shorter but with even more variety in presentation format. We’ll be curating […]
How STAR FHT doctor’s videos help navigate COVID-19 pandemic
CBC article published June 24, 2020 By Desmond Brown The COVID-19 pandemic has turned Stratford-based family physician Sean Blaine into an internet sensation of sorts — as a YouTube commentator offering tips to navigate the health emergency. Blaine says he has “a couple of ideas on how we can get through this thing together.” He […]
AFHTO Members win Future Innovator Awards

The Change Foundation’s Future Innovator Awards recognizes six people, teams and/or organizations who have a strong vision for positive change for patients and caregivers and have the potential to make notable impact going forward. Members and member-affiliated organizations and individuals were recipients, including: The MINT Memory Clinic– a model for which Dr. Linda Lee, […]
Patient and Family Engagement in Primary Care: Case Study Report
On Thursday, June 11, The Change Foundation released Patient and Family Engagement in Primary Care: Building effective patient and family advisory councils in three Ontario communities,a case study report featuring 3 Family Health Teams. The report finds twenty key lessons in 5 categories- launching, recruiting, operating, relationships and sustaining. Teams featured: Peterborough Family Health Team– […]
COVID-19 in Ontario – A Focus on Diversity: Public Health Ontario Report
On June 1, Public Health Ontario released Enhanced Epidemiological Summary COVID-19 in Ontario – A Focus on Diversity . Purpose This report aims to explore neighbourhood-level trends among laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases reported in Ontario who do not reside in long term care (LTC) from a health equity perspective. It combines individual case data with neighbourhood-level […]
A Joint Open Letter on Pandemic Pay
May 25, 2020 Premier Doug Ford Queen’s Park Toronto, ON M7A 1A1 OPEN LETTER Dear Premier Ford, As a broad group of healthcare stakeholders whose members employ tens of thousands of front line workers in the fight against COVID 19, we write to you today to seek immediate clarity on the implementation details and timing […]
AFHTO 2020 Conference: switching things up
In February AFHTO’s Membership Committee and Board approved our 2020 conference themes and program. In March we prepared to announce them and send a call for volunteers but as with everything else, the COVID-19 pandemic overtook our plans. Thank you for your patience as we monitored the situation and made decisions about how it might […]
AFHTO partners with Ontario Psychological Association and others to improve access to psychological services for front lines during COVID-19
Ontario Psychological Association Partners with the Ontario College of Family Physicians, Nurse Practitioners’ Association of Ontario and the Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario to improve access to psychological services for front lines during COVID-19 Ontario Psychological Association News release (Toronto, ON) May 12th, 2020 – In response to Ontario’s growing mental health crisis, […]