Advancing health system transformation & Integration

Are you interested in measuring the complexity of your organization's clients at a more granular level? 

Staff at London InterCommunity Health Centre (LIHC) have developed a collaborative exercise to measure the complexity of their clinical clients. This allowed them to rebalance their clinicians' rosters, ensuring balanced workloads. In this Lunch 'n' Learn webinar, LIHC staff described the project and provided an in-depth look at their methodology.

In 2023, the Alliance conducted a pilot study of the EQ-5D tool for capturing patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) - essentially, a standardized way to measure how clients perceive their health and wellbeing, and track changes in their health and wellbeing over time. This webinar provides an orientation to the EQ-5D, a review of the pilot study and what we learned from  it, and an overview of the supports we will be providing for implementation.

# Executive Summary

# Background and Objective

In Ontario, more than 70% of primary care providers (PCPs) report feelings of burnout due to an increase in administrative work and the chronic shortage of healthcare professionals.

# About this Webinar

In 2018, the Alliance for Healthier Communities brought Social Prescribing to Canada. Over the last 5 years, the model has evolved to include special, population-health focuses such as Black health, mental wellness, and active living for seniors. 

This webinar, recorded on October 2, 2024, presents some of our sector's key learnings about sociodemographic data (SDD) collection in community primary health care settings. 

This report describes the complex, generalist roles of social workers in primary health care settings and demonstrates how this work advances the goals of primary health care. It describes challenges experienced by social workers in primary care settings and outlines a vision for the future in which social workers are embedded in all primary care teams and accessible to everyone in Canada; social workers work to full scope and are equitably compensated; and the value of social work in primary care is clearly demonstrated through robust data collection and linkage. 

# Abstract

# Background: 

Leadership styles, beliefs, and behaviours are an important and critical component to the delivery of quality care in any primary care organisation.

This is Part I of a special issue of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, titled Social prescribing in Canada: An emerging approach to health and well-being.   

Editors for this special issue are Kate Mulligan, Kiffer G. Card, and Sandra Allison. It includes an editorial statement, evidence synthesis, original qualitative research, commentary, and an at-a-glance article. 

Dr. Jennifer Rayner, the Alliance's Director of Research and Policy, presented this at the 2024 Alliance Conference: Co-Designing the Future of Primary Health Care, as part of the Governance stream. It's an overview of the key things board directors at Alliance-member organizations need to know about sociodemographic (SD) data collection, including:

This document was created by the Alliance for our members and their community partners who received IPCT funding in Spring 2024. It addresses emerging questions from the sector, related to new and updated reporting requirements as well as impacts on panel size, SAMI scores, and SAAs.

If you would like further elaboration on these questions and answers, or if you have questions not addressed by this document, please email Christine.Randle@AllianceON.org.