Understanding the enablers of highest-quality care

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#Introduction

East Toronto Health Partners (ETHP) is a network of organizations that serve residents of East Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ETHP is a newly formed integrated model of care in which hospital, primary care, community providers and patients/families work together to improve population health.

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#Background

There has been a large-scale adoption of virtual delivery of primary care as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

For this lunch 'n' learn webinar, held on June 22, 2023, we convened a panel of experts in primary health care quality and virtual care delivery from the Alliance for Healthier Communities, Healthcare Excellence Canada, Canada Health Infoway, and Ontario Health. They presented an overview of their organizations' virtual care resources and helped us understand how these resources can be used together when planning and delivering care.

This report focuses on the experiences of young Black mothers in navigating the challenges of motherhood while facing systemic racism. TAIBU CHC and Researchers from Brock University draw on themes including maternal experiences of racism and gendered oppression, compounding stressors affecting Black mothers, and the impact of racism on early childhood growth and development. This research project is the first of its kind in Canada to explore this topic in a significant way.

This evidence brief synthesizes the most up-to-date research on safer supply, success factors and challenges within programs, and what clients say about their experiences with safer supply so far. It is a brief summary of the current evidence about prescribed safer supply for lay audiences, political briefings, and the media. It draws on findings from peer-reviewed research articles and commentaries, as well as all program evaluation reports that have been published to date. 

#Key Points

• Canada’s health care systems do not routinely collect self-reported race and Indigenous identity data and often lack a standardized and consistent approach to data collection that would permit comparisons between organizations or jurisdictions.

#Summary

#Background

Despite high burden of Hepatitis C (HCV) among people who inject drugs, significant barriers to care persist.

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#Objective

The objective of this study was to identify pharmacists’ perspectives on the benefits and challenges of precepting pharmacy students during circumstances that require using virtual care in team-based primary care practices.

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#Background

High quality communication is central to effective primary care. The COVID-19 pandemic led to a dramatic increase in virtual care but little is known about how this may affect communication quality.