Ontario Connecting 500,000 More People to a Family Doctor and Primary Care Team

September 22, 2025

Our government is delivering on our plan to connect everyone in Ontario to primary care, when and where they need it, for years to come.

Today, we’re investing more than $250 million to launch the next call for proposals to create and expand approximately 75 primary care teams, connecting 500,000 more people to a primary care provider.

This brings us one step closer to connecting everyone in Ontario to convenient primary care by 2029.

Ontario continues to lead the country with record investments and rapid action to protect Ontario’s health-care system through its plan to add over 300 new primary care teams across the province, connecting two million more people to publicly funded primary care by 2029.

The new and expanded teams will prioritize attaching individuals in their communities to care, including those on the Health Care Connect waitlist, which has already decreased by more than 98,000 people or over 42 per cent since January 1, 2025.

Today’s funding builds on the $235 million investment announced in June to create over 130 new and expanded primary care teams to connect more than 300,000 to primary care, some of which have already begun accepting new patients.

Through Your Health: A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care,  the Ontario government continues to take bold and decisive action to grow the province’s highly skilled health-care workforce and ensure people and their families have access to high-quality care, closer to home, for generations to come.