Using Data to Determine Roster Complexity in Primary Health Care
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.
Measuring "Better" Better: Findings from the EQ-5D Pilot Project
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.
Clinical Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Automation Technology to Reduce Administrative Burden in Primary Care
In January 2025, the Alliance hosted a webinar where guests from OntarioMD described this study and its implications. Find it here.
The Future is Social Prescribing: Why it's key to an integrated, accessible, resilient health system.
# 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.
Driving Forward: How (and why) to continually advance SDD data collection in your organization
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.
Social Work and Primary Care: A Vision for the Path Forward
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.
The impact of leadership style in team-based primary care – staff satisfaction and motivation
This paper was recently named #3 in BJGP Open Top 10 Research Articles of the Year for 2024
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada - Special Issue on Social prescribing in Canada
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.
Board’s Role in Improving Data Collection and Use
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: