Ontario Connecting 300,000 More People to Primary Care This Year

• Today, our government launched the first call for proposals to create and expand up to 80 primary care teams that will connect 300,000 more people to a primary care team in their community this year, bringing the province one step closer to connecting everyone in Ontario to primary care by 2029.

• We are investing $213 million to support the first call for proposals, which is part of the more than $1.8 billion our government is investing to add 305 new primary care teams across the province, connecting two million more people to a publicly funded primary care within four years.

• This first call is targeted to communities, by postal code, that have the highest number of people not connected to primary care, averaging 8,000 people unattached per postal code.

• This is an important step in the government’s action plan to build a primary care system that automatically offers every person in Ontario the opportunity to have a family doctor or primary care team based on postal code, no matter where they live.

• Through our government’s record investments in primary care, Ontario has achieved the highest rate of access to a regular health care provider in the country.