Ontario announces $235M in funds to support primary health-care teams

Julia Alevato · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 23, 2025 2:49 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

The Ford authorities has announced $235 cardinal successful caller funding to support new and expanded superior attraction teams that volition assistance link more Ontarians to superior wellness attraction this year.

The 130 superior attraction teams were selected through a telephone for proposals launched successful April, focused connected communities with the highest fig of residents who bash not presently person superior wellness care.

Health Minister Sylvia Jones announced connected Monday that the teams will assistance connect 300,000 radical to superior attraction this year. 

"Our authorities is protecting Ontario's health-care strategy and helping link everyone successful Ontario to a superior attraction supplier for years to come," said Jones. 

Jones says the caller backing is portion of the government's Primary Care Action Plan, which aims to link everyone successful Ontario to a publically funded household doc oregon superior attraction squad by 2026.

In April, the Ontario Medical Association said that 2.5 cardinal radical crossed Ontario don't person a household doc and that fig volition turn to much than 4.4 cardinal radical by 2026. 

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The seat of Ontario's Primary Care Action squad says the teams volition statesman to judge patients successful the upcoming weeks and months. 

"We cognize that galore person waited a agelong clip for this," said Dr. Jane Philpott astatine Monday's announcement. 

"These teams volition beryllium the beforehand doorway to care, offering timely, broad enactment led by a household doc oregon a caregiver practitioner," she said. 

In a release, the state says eligible teams not selected for backing successful this circular volition beryllium encouraged to refine and resubmit their proposals for the adjacent telephone for proposals, which is expected to motorboat successful September.

Jones says superior attraction teams volition beryllium provided with $142 cardinal successful operational backing implicit 3 years to enlistee and clasp health-care workers. 

Funding tin beryllium utilized for non-physician squad members specified arsenic caregiver practitioners, registered applicable nurses, doc assistants and pharmacists.