Team Up! Webinar: Integrating Allied Health into Primary Care: Delphi study findings and discussion

Event Description

The Innovation Support Unit (ISU) is currently conducting the Primary Care Teams Capacity Estimator (CapEs) research study to understand how different allied health roles contribute to primary care team capacity. Using a Delphi process research method, the ISU has engaged experts across Canada to explore how primary care visits can be shared between allied health providers, family physicians and nurse practitioners. In this webinar the ISU will share initial findings from the Delphi processes related to the following five roles: Registered Nurses, Social Workers, Physiotherapists, Physician Assistants, and Pharmacists.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the Delphi process used in the CapEs Study;
• Identify how allied health providers add capacity in primary care teams.

Morgan Price: Morgan(he/him) (MD, PhD, CCFP, FCFP) is thankful to usually be on the shared lands of the Lekwungen Peoples. He gets to work with the whole ISU team across many of the workstreams. He is the director of ISU, associate-head of the department of Family Practice (DoFP), an Associate Professor at UBC and affiliate faculty at UVic Division of Medical Sciences, Computer Science, and Health Information Science. He is a family physician and practices in a Community Health Centre where he provides team-based care to underserved populations in the inner-city in Victoria. His research is in health systems change and clinical information system design and adoption.

Elka Humphrys: Elka (PhD) emigrated from the UK in May 2020 and now lives on the traditional territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən speaking peoples and the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations. Elka leads the Research and Evaluation Workstream at the Innovation Support Unit in the Department of Family Practice at UBC and has experience in mixed methods research design and healthcare database development. Elka’s research interests focus on understanding individual and community engagement with healthcare services, and identifying opportunities to improve health outcomes.

Ada Okonkwo-Dappa: Ada (she/her) (MPH) is a proud Black-African Canadian who is now settled on the traditional territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən speaking peoples and the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations. Ada comes to the ISU having recently completed her Masters in Public Health at UVic. Ada is a Research and Data Analyst with the Innovation Support Unit in the Department of Family Practice at UBC. Joining the ISU team, Ada also has a background in community and stakeholder engagement, and is passionate about advancing the health of systematically oppressed populations using mixed methods research design to advance and improve health outcomes.

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