Strategies for Family Health Team Leadership: Lessons Learned by Successful Teams
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Abstract
As Ontario begins to launch 50 more family health teams (FHTs), new FHT leaders stand to benefit from the experiences of the 150 teams created since 2005. Based on interviews with the leadership of five successful FHTs, this article presents lessons learned by the physicians, administrators and other clinicians who introduced FHTs to their colleagues and communities. Existing FHTs have shown that the team model for primary care can benefit healthcare providers and patients. But success has not come easy. FHT leaders have to introduce new ways of practice, novel interdisciplinary relationships, the latest technologies and a new type of care organization to their diverse communities. Team leads have relied on their vision for transforming patient care to motivate themselves and their team through these challenges. Although each FHT’s environment and composition are unique, our interviews discovered that the critical requirements for an effective team are consistent. Our interviewees identified key lessons to help new FHT leads through each stage of their team’s development. Collected below, these lessons provide practical approaches to the following: • Investing in educating team members, particularly physicians, about the new model of care and what changes to expect in their practice • Defining a strategy to balance the demands of team, community and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
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| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
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