Your Voice. Your Impact.
Every person connected to Ontario’s primary care system has the power to create change. Whether you are part of primary care team, an individual clinician, a partner organization, or a member of the public, there is a role for you in strengthening team-based care primary across Ontario.
Your Voice. Your Impact.
Every person connected to Ontario’s primary care system has the power to create change. Whether you are part of primary care team, an individual clinician, a partner organization, or a member of the public, there is a role for you in strengthening team-based care primary across Ontario.
PRIMARY CARE TEAMS
Lead the movement.
Interprofessional teams are some of the most powerful advocates for how to drive system change in a person-centred way. Your on-the-ground experience should shape provincial priorities and help government understand what’s working, and what’s not.
Reach out to chat with us about how you can get involved in AFHTO’s advocacy today!
How you can take action:
- Participate in pre-budget consultations by submitting a written or oral presentation
- Mobilize your board and leadership to amplify key messages with local MPPs
- Share your team’s story (e.g., through data, patient outcomes, recruitment challenges, and innovations) to inform AFHTO’s provincial advocacy
- Promote sector-wide campaigns on issues like wage parity or attachment expansion
- Engage local media to elevate the realities and successes of team-based care
- Connect AFHTO to your patients, so we can hear their stories—of challenges and successes!
Patients and The General Public
How you can take action:
- Contact your local MPP to share your experience accessing primary care.
- Participate in AFHTO-supported public campaigns to protect and strengthen team-based care.
- Share your story about how your primary care team has supported you or your family.
- Stay informed through our updates on policy changes and investment decisions.
Your voice matters.
The public has tremendous influence in shaping health policy, especially when it comes to access to family physicians, team-based care, and wait times. When community members speak up, the government listens. And when a critical mass of Ontarians get loud, the government acts.
Have questions or looking for more resources? Send us an email – we’d love to meet you and hear your story!
Researchers, Partner Organizations, and Associations
Strengthen our Collective Impact.
AFHTO is always looking to work closely with sector partners across the system, and locally at the community level. Coordinated advocacy accelerates outcomes, boosts policy change, and helps achieve greater alignment across the system.
Interested in partnering on advocacy? Get in touch today!
How you can take action:
- Collaborate on joint statements, submissions, and campaigns with AFHTO.
- Share data and research that strengthen the case for team-based care.
- Support cross-sector initiatives that improve integration, attachment, and equity.
- Participate in roundtables and working groups to drive shared solutions.
Government & Policy Makers
How you can take action:
- Evidence-based recommendations rooted in what teams and patients need today.
- Clear, effective solutions that are financially feasible and able to be implemented.
- Collaborative engagement and understanding of our shared purpose, which accelerates policy decisions.
- A province-wide network of teams that are united and ready, to drive change and shape the future of primary care in Ontario.
We are ready to work with you.
AFHTO is committed to helping the province deliver on its goals: expanding attachment, stabilizing the workforce, and improving patient outcomes. We bring real-time insights, implementation experience, and deep understanding of interprofessional care.
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