Family Practitioners and Specialists need to work together and hear each other’s concerns to improve all of our lives! In line with your request to improve interaction and coordination between primary care and specialists, we are hosting an event on Wednesday, Oct. 26th from 5:30 -7:30 p.m.

The Time Is Now: Join us  to resurrect a Family Practitioner/Specialist Collaborative for Mid-West Toronto
Transforming the Way We Work Together: 2.0 An Evening for Family Practitioners & Specialists
Wednesday,  October 26th, 2022

A virtual event featuring approximately 20 specialists from Sinai Health System, University Health Network and Women’s College Hospital. This evening is an attempt to resurrect our collaborative with the potential of funding to execute change.

FACT: Our first such event on Oct. 17, 2017 generated mutual understanding and a set of actionable recommendations (report available upon request)
FACT: A working group of 6 family physicians and 6 specialists made substantive progress between 2017-2019 (report available upon request)
FACT: The pandemic has widened gaps and inefficiencies increasing wait times, quality of care and significant distress for family physicians and specialists alike
FACT: Improving transitions in care improves quality and reduces medical errors

Opening Remarks: Dr. Danielle Martin, Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, U of T
Dr. Gillian Hawker, Chair, Department of Medicine, U of T

 Panel presentations: Representing Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, Rheumatology and Surgery

 Small group discussion: co-facilitated by family practitioners and specialists

 Opportunities for feedback and informing a path forward.

This event builds on successes in Mid-West Toronto pre-pandemic times when we held the first such event in Oct. 2017. The evening spawned a working group that met over a 2-year period to address mutual concerns and enable better shared patient care.

We are resurrecting that work after almost 3 years of deepening gaps between our sectors. We have 12 specialists from Mid-West (CAMH, Sinai Health System, University Health Network, Women’s College Hospital) who have agreed to participate to date.

Our plan is to listen, learn from one another and develop a plan to begin to actualize improvements: in the referral process, consultation notes, and in ongoing collaborations in the interest of patient care.

Please join us by pre-registering here:  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4aw5aw2qQ6GPellE2aHiPw. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

To download a PDF invitation to the virtual event, please click here.