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Ontario on track to meet goal of connecting every resident with primary care: health minister
Ontario aims to attach hundreds of thousands annually to primary care via $1.8 billion funding and expanded health teams to reduce two million unattached residents by 2029.
- On the eve of last year's snap election, Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones launched a $1.8 billion primary‑care plan, and the government claims progress toward goals.
- Facing roughly two million people without regular primary care, a backlog persists on the Health Care Connect portal, with the provincial wait list around 234,500 in January 2025.
- The strategy funds 300 new and expanded interprofessional primary health‑care teams, and last year approved 75 proposals representing 135 teams, adding about 275,000 people attached.
- However, the auditor general cautioned that attachment does not guarantee timely care and found Health Care Connect underused, with fewer than 10% of those in need enrolled.
- Dr. Jane Philpott, appointed last year to lead the primary care action team, is focusing on rapid patient matching while the government funds primary care teams and expands new medical‑school seats and faster licensing.
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Ontario on track to meet goal of connecting every resident with primary care: health minister
Health Minister Sylvia Jones says Ontario has made progress on its plan to connect more Ontarians with primary care, closing in on a target of 300,000 people for the first year of the program.
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Ford government makes progress on primary care, but 2 million still unattached
The Ford government says it is making good progress on its plan to connect every Ontarian with some form of primary care, although roughly two million are still unattached. On the eve of last year’s snap election, Health Minister Sylvia Jones launched a plan to spend $1.8 billion on primary care — rolling out more physicians, nurse practitioners and multidisciplinary teams. The policy pledged to connect everyone in the province with a primary ca…
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