🎙️ Step into the time machine with us and start with the 1st Episode - where 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢 journeys back to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in our gripping episode 'COVID-19 Past: Reflections & Revelations.' (Some good brain-worm stories too!)
episodes.fm/1730562799

thewalrus.ca/you-dont-have-…
Innovation in the making with NORCs; NORC Innovation Centre, OpenLab,@UHN
'How to make a model of an aging community? Start with where they are', says Jen Recknagel
'You need to approach a problem like this with humility,' Howard Abrams

The OurCare Standards are a way for every person to assess whether they are receiving the primary care they deserve and whether the primary care in their province measures up

We hope it sets direction for policy-making and is a framework through which we can evaluate reforms

We've distilled all of what we heard into what we are calling the OurCare Standards: six simple statements that summarize what every person in Canada should expect from the primary care system

Over the last 16 months, our team has conducted the largest public engagement ever on the future of #primarycare in Canada

Today we release our final report✨

10,000 people
10,000 participant hours
1 vision for primary care

OurCare.ca🧵
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Today is the start of Resident Doctor Appreciation Week! Thank you to all our family medicine residents for your hard work and remarkable contributions to your patients, our department, and the well-being of the communities we serve.

#ResidentDoctorsAppreciation2024

🚨 Family doctors are calling for a statement of emergency. 🚨

Primary care is in crisis, and research suggests the situation will significantly worsen over the coming decade.

Add your voice by signing & sharing the declaration: primarycarecrisis2023.ca/statement-of-e…

Primary care is in crisis. More than 6.5 million people in Canada are without a family doc and the situation is poised to get worse

That's why my colleagues and I are declaring a state of emergency
thestar.com/opinion/contri…

Join us & sign your name 👇🏽
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Primary care for all is not a dream

It's the reality in 🇳🇱🇳🇴🇫🇮🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇿🇩🇰🇮🇹

In our latest paper CMAJ, we draw lessons for Canada from these 9 OECD countries

They set a goal of 100% attachment to #primarycare & spend more of their health budget on it🧵

cmaj.ca/content/195/47…

'One of the biggest recommendations that everyone agrees on is that we need to expand the team so that primary care physicians can spend more time with patients and less time on paperwork.' #myFMF

Just heard that the # of adults in BC without a family doc in BC is MORE THAN 1 in 4 😱. Thanks to Tara Kiran for excellent research on engaging public & improving healthcare in 🇨🇦. We need action from BC NDP #bcpoli NOW, to build equitable team-based care Camille Currie

OurCare is a pan-Canadian conversation about the future of primary care — from the perspective of patients and members of the public.
Today at #FamilyMedicineForum2023 , Tara Kiran highlights the learning of this panel of true experts in the health. ourcare.ca

The impact of not having a family doctor: Patients are worse off, and so is the health system, by Cathy Risdon theconversation.com/the-impact-of-… via The Conversation Canada Timothy Caulfield

Excited today to launch Peers for Joy in Work, a new program UofT Family Medicine

These 30 family docs are training to support colleagues feel more control (and ☀️) in their work life

Huge thanks to Dr Sarah Smith (aka the charting coach) for collaborating with us on this

BC’s Nurse Led primary care clinics achieve what they were designed for: Improve access, patient experience and the general health of their users. New paper in BMJ_Open bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/10/…
Katherine Bertoni Arnaud Duhoux André Picard Adrian Dix

If we truly want the most benefit for all Canadians, we need a universal single-payer #pharmacare program. The PBO report outlines why

These new guidelines on equitable preventive care CMAJ Nav Persaud @AKLofters are a must-read for primary care clinicians, public health practitioners, policy-makers & patients
cmaj.ca/content/195/37…

I really love the interactive tool for patients at screening.ca

'There is nothing more disheartening than wanting to help somebody, but knowing they can't afford the treatment.' Jane Philpott on the importance of a national, universal single-payer #pharmacare program. #cdnhealth

Huge thanks to our speakers who brought diverse points of view including Dr. Lindsay Hedden Keir Peterson Dr. Birinder Narang MBBS CCFP Dr Tia Pham Dr. Rita McCracken, MD, PhD (she/her) André Picard Goldis Mitra, M.D. Christie Newton Alan Ruddiman 🇨🇦🇿🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Lindsay Mackay & Dr. Kathleen Ross Canadian Medical Association who spent the whole Saturday with them

Primary care is in crisis. How can we do better?

We brought British Columbia in a room and asked them

31 members of the public
~30 hrs of learning & deliberation
25 recommendations to improve primary care

Read the report they wrote 🧵
ourcare.ca/prioritiespane… #OurCare