Gender-Affirming Cancer Screening Guidelines for Transgender and Non-Binary Clients
In March 2019, Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario) introduced a new overarching policy for breast and cervical cancer screening for Trans people (updated March 2022), providing clarity about who is eligible for screening through the Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP) and Ontario Cervical Screening Program (OCSP) and outlining steps that can be taken to reduce emotional and physical discomfort for Transgender and Non-binary people during the screening process.
Webinar: Pathways to Climate Resilience in Primary Health Care
The impacts of climate change are already creating new barriers to health equity and strenghtening old ones. People who experience structural marginalization, including anti-Black racism, colonial oppression, and material deprivation are disproportionately affected by extreme weather events, loss of access to land, food insecurity, chronic stress, and other direct impacts of climate change. Those impacts also deepen existing inequities. Because of this, antiopressive approaches to individual and community health should include mitigating and building resilience to climate change.
Lunch 'n' Learn - The Ins & Outs of Optimizing Panel Size: A WEQI approach
Optimizing panel size is an important step primary healthcare organizations can take towards making care more accessible for their clients and communities and advancing population health.
On Tuesday, May 17, two leaders from the West End Quality Improvement (WEQI) collaborative shared their experiences and learnings with applying quality improvement (QI) methodology to the complex challenge of optimizing their panel sizes.
Lunch 'n' Learn Webinar: Understanding the 2021 Practice Profile
#The CHC Practice Profile for 2020-2021 was published in March 2022.
Lunch 'n' Learn Webinar: Understanding the 2021 Practice Profile
#The CHC Practice Profile for 2020-2021 was published in March 2022.
Lunch 'n' Learn: COVID-19 and indoor air quality - how community spaces can reduce transmission using ventilation, filtration and ultra-violet disinfection
#Webinar: Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Improving indoor air quality can help reduce transmission of COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to create a healthier, safer environment for workers, residents, clients and visitors through:
Webinar: 2022/23 Collaborative QIP Overview and Supports
In partnership with the Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario (AFHTO) and the Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics Association (NPLCA), the Alliance hosted a special Lunch 'n' Learn webinar on in January 2022 to help primary care teams better understand Collaborative Quality Improvement Plans (cQIP) and start planning theirs for 2022/23. Dr. David Kaplan, Chief of Clinical Quality at Ontario Health (Quality), and Mark Robson, Manager of Quality Improvement Integrated Care, Value Based Care, at Ontario Health led the discussion.
