Welcome to TeamUP!

This episode focuses on Stage 5 of the Learning Pathway: Team Evaluation, and the importance of evaluation in the context of team based primary care. The hosts explore how evaluation acts as both the end and beginning of the cyclical process of enhancing primary care teams. Sarah and Morgan delve into the distinctions and overlaps between Quality Improvement and evaluation, methods of performing meaningful evaluations, and the introduction of evaluation tools aimed at measuring team effectiveness. The episode emphasizes that evaluation is not a linear process but a continuous circle that can commence at any stage of team development. Morgan highlights how it is often best to begin evaluating sooner than later because it is easy to spend far too long planning what to evaluate. You can always complete another evaluation cycle. The hosts then share the plan for a TBC evaluation project in BC that is going to engage 30 clinics in evaluation over the next few months.

The episode ends with a call to action focused on starting your evaluation journey by looking at available resources, reminding listeners to check back in the show notes of previous episodes periodically as more the learning pathway will continue to evolve. The season wraps up with a bit of a teaser for the next season of TeamUP!

Special thanks to Amie Hough, a Leader in Health System Improvement for Primary and Community Care with Health Quality BC, and one of the creators of the learning pathway, who we will be hearing from throughout the season.

Links and Resources

For more information on the Team Based Care Learning Pathway check out https://teambasedcarebc.ca/team-based-care-pathway/

Measurement Plan Worksheet

Small worksheet to help identify what to collect, when and how to measure.

https://teambasedcarebc.ca/resources/measurement-plan-worksheet/#details

Team Effectiveness Tool

Taking us back to where we started with S06- check out the Team Effectiveness tool, a short multiple choice assessment to help huide your learning on team based care.

https://teambasedcarebc.ca/team-effectiveness-tool/

Through the TeamUp network we are working to advance supports for team based primary care. Please reach out to info@teambasedcarebc.ca if you would like to learn more!