Rachelle Ashcroft

Jan 8, 2025 | theconversation.com | Catherine Donnelly |Jennifer Lake |Jordan Miller |Rachelle Ashcroft

Primary care is in crisis. Recent estimates indicate 6.5 million Canadians, including 2.5 million Ontarians, do not have a primary care provider. Interprofessional primary care teams include a range of health professionals in addition to a family doctor or nurse practitioner, and are a key solution to improve access to primary care. As of Dec. 1, 2024 family physician and former federal cabinet minister Jane Philpott is leading Ontario’s new Primary Care Action Team.

Dec 1, 2024 | bmjopen.bmj.com | Rachelle Ashcroft |Peter Sheffield |Keith Adamson |Fred Phelps

MethodsA scoping review was used to map a broad range of information on the role and scope of practice of social workers in primary care.

Jun 10, 2024 | journals.plos.org | Rachelle Ashcroft |Factor-Inwentash Faculty |Catherine Donnelly |Peter Sheffield |Judith Brown

Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewedResearch Article Citation: Ashcroft R, Donnelly C, Sheffield P, Lam S, Kemp C, Adamson K, et al. (2024) A qualitative examination of the experiences and perspectives of interprofessional primary health care teams in the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccination in Ontario, Canada. PLoS ONE 19(6): e0304616.

Aug 15, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Andrea Greenblatt |Factor-Inwentash Faculty |Eunjung Lee |Rachelle Ashcroft

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Jul 14, 2023 | bmjopen.bmj.com | Caitlin Muhl |Kate Siobhan Mulligan |Imaan Bayoumi |Rachelle Ashcroft

DiscussionFor the first time in the history of the social prescribing movement, we now have internationally accepted conceptual and operational definitions of social prescribing. In addition, the conceptual definitions are distinct from pre-existing definitions, and to our knowledge, the operational definition is the first in the world.