The momentum continues!
On December 18, 2019, Mississauga Halton primary care providers who stepped forward to lead the establishment of the renewed MH Primary Care Network go together for their first meeting. At the end of the facilitated session, the group had co-designed vision, mission, and values statements as a foundation for the network's strategy document to be drafted in January.
To access the PDF materials from the session, please click on the following links:
The group will meet again in mid-January to develop the MH Primary Care Network's 3-year strategic priorities, governance structure, and member services and benefits.
Next steps
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Bonnie Scott at bonnie.scott@lhins.on.ca (the Mississauga Halton LHIN is providing interim administrative support).
Better still, join us on January 28th to speak with your Primary Care peers and include your voice in the discussion – we look forward to seeing you then!
To tell us how you would like to be involved, please click on this link to answer a 3 question survey. We hope you complete this as soon as possible so that you can get the most out of being involved at this early stage.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
On Tuesday, November 26, a lively co-design session was held with over thirty primary care providers from across the Mississauga Halton region. The purpose of this session was to 1) bring together a broad and diverse group from our Primary Care community, 2) clarify what type of organization we wanted to build, and 3) begin laying the foundation for a new Primary Care organization (where are we going, what will we do, who will be involved). There was representation from all sub-regions across Mississauga Halton, as well as all physician payment models.
Our theme for the evening was “stronger together”, reflected in the animation previewed at the beginning of the session. This helped set the tone for a different kind of meeting, where there was a focus on co-design, small group activities, and discussion.
3 key takeaways
What came before November 26, 2019
The November 26 co-design session was the third meeting this Fall involving our Primary Care community (first one held September 24 and second one held October 22) to explore if and how we, as primary care providers, wanted to organize and strengthen our collective voice at a time when there is much change and transformation happening in the Ontario health care system.
On September 24, we discussed the fast-paced health system reform, including Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) being introduced by the provincial government, and how Primary Care might be impacted (click here for OMA resources on OHTs). We decided there was a need for Primary Care in our region to organize and have a collective voice.
On October 22, we reviewed our “burning platform” – the why – behind organizing Primary Care right now, as well as examples of how Primary Care has already organized 1) in our region (previous Mississauga Halton Primary Care Network), 2) across Ontario (Hamilton Academy of Medicine, East Toronto Family Practice Network), 3) across Canada (Albert Primary Care Networks), and 4) outside Canada (UK Hackney Primary Care Federation). Click here for the October 22 presentation. We agreed to go forward with a renewed Mississauga Halton Primary Care Network, however the distinct value of this regional network compared to the emerging Primary Care groups with OHT-affiliated providers was not clear and needed to be revisited at the November 26 meeting.
Thank you for taking the time to be updated and informed as we embark on this journey to create a strong collective Primary Care voice in the Mississauga Halton region!
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