Patient Perspectives on Family Care Teams

Cris Carter lives in St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) where she engages with the health care system as a Patient Partner on the NL Support -SPOR Patient Advisory Council. She joined the Council in 2016 and helped roll out patient-oriented research training for researchers, medical personnel, and prospective patient partners to promote patient engagement in NL. Cris has been engaged as a Patient Partner on several local research projects into treatments for diabetes.  When the COVID pandemic began in 2020, Cris became a member of the team investigating, Through the Looking Glass: The impact of COVID-19 isolation on Long-Term Care facility residents – a visitor’s perspective,”  a project initiated by the NL Support-SPOR Patient Advisory Council.  She is excited to begin research in 2024 on the health topic, “Patient Perspectives on Family Care Teams,” a project funded through the SPOR Evidence Alliance.

The NL Centre for Applied Health Research is a team of researchers with a unique approach to decision support in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since 2007, the Centre’s Contextualized Health Research Synthesis Program (CHRSP) has been a collaborative partnership that includes applied health researchers at NLCAHR, leaders in Newfoundland & Labrador’s provincial health and community systems, and patient/caregiver advisers. An innovative knowledge translation approach, CHRSP puts research in place by creating reports that support decisions on priority issues are identified by our health system partners with a focus on the unique NL context. The CHRSP team at NLCAHR looks forward to supporting a patient-led project that will explore patient perspectives on Family Care Teams, a new model of primary care now being implemented province wide.