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

April 10, 2025

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.