The government announced 75 new or enlarged interprofessional health-care teams, with the goal of providing 500,000 Ontarians primary care

Lack of access to comprehensive primary care is a problem across Canada, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information and Statistics Canada, whose most recent data is from 2023.

The Ontario government says its plan to fund new primary care clinics across the province is paying dividends, with nearly 100,000 patients on the official waiting list for a family doctor having recently found a new medical provider.

Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones said the number of people registered on Health Care Connect has fallen by 42 per cent since the Progressive Conservative government began a concerted effort to expand access to primary care in a province where 2.5 million people did not have a family doctor as of September, 2023.

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