Local Family Physicians with Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) Project

Project Description:

The Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University has been funded by the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care to recommend how family physicians can best link with the newly formed Local Health Integration Networks(LHINs) and how the LHINs could support primary care.

Purpose:

To recommend how family physicians in Ontario can best link with the newly formed Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs).

Methodology:

Through an international literature review and environmental scan, interviews with key national and international stakeholders, focus groups with family physicians and a strategic planning meeting with key stakeholders, this research identified recommendations on how to include family doctors in the newly regionalizing healthy system.