More families across Ontario will have access to a family doctor or primary care team as Doug Ford and our PC government take another major step toward connecting everyone to primary care by 2029.
Our PC government is investing an additional $250 million to create or expand approximately 78 primary care teams, connecting 600,000 more people to care in communities across the province. That means more families getting the care they need, closer to home.
This is all part of our $3.4 billion Primary Care Action Plan, which will add more than 300 new primary care teams and connect two million more people to care by 2029. So far, more than 437,000 people now have a family doctor or primary care team who didn’t before.
Nearly 90 per cent of people in Ontario are connected to a primary care provider, and we’re working to close the gap. The next call for proposals will open in September, helping bring more family doctors, nurse practitioners and other health-care professionals together to provide faster, more convenient care closer to home.
Doug Ford and our Ontario PC team will keep investing in frontline health care, growing our health-care workforce and delivering on our plan to connect everyone in Ontario to primary care by 2029.