🩺 Looking for a family doctor or nurse practitioner? Ontario is improving Health Care Connect to match all Ontarians to primary care. To match you faster, ensure your information is up-to-date. You can now manage this online, anytime at ontario.ca/healthcareconn…

We’re excited to announce Dr. Jane Philpott as the Day One Keynote Speaker for #dhc2025. She’ll share updates on strengthening Ontario’s primary care teams, improving access to care, and advancing digital health. Use code DHCLDay2025! for 15% off! bit.ly/dhc2025

Today, Ontario launched the next call for proposals to create and expand approximately 75 primary care teams that will connect 500,000 more people to a primary care clinician.

This over $250 million investment is part of the government’s $2.1 billion Primary Care Action Plan and brings the province one step closer to connecting everyone in Ontario to convenient primary care by 2029. news.ontario.ca/en/release/100…

«La liste d’attente d’Accès Soins a déjà diminué de plus de 98 000 personnes, soit 42%», affirme la ministre de la Santé Sylvia Jones, qui annonce un nouvel appel de propositions pour créer/élargir 75 équipes de soins primaires (investissement de 250M$) Jane Philpott #onpoli

Ontario has made progress on connecting everyone on the Health Care Connect waitlist to primary care by spring 2026. The waitlist (as of January 1, 2025) has decreased by over 98,000 people, or 42% - reflecting Ontario’s continued work to connect everyone to primary care.

Thnx to historic investments in Ontario, we’re making ++progress towards building a system where every person is attached to primary care. The 2026–27 call for proposals is now open, with each Ontario Health Team eligible to submit at least 1 proposal. More here from Kelly Grant

Stay tuned for the winner announcement of the 2025 #ShaughnessyCohen Prize this Wednesday! Read the finalists: Raymond Blake, Stephen Maher, Jane Philpott, Alasdair Roberts & Tanya Talaga 👉writerstrust.com/awards/shaughn… Sponsored by Canadian National

Ontario made a commitment that everyone on the HealthCareConnect waitlist as of 1/1/25 would be attached to ongoing primary care by next spring. Thnx to all the family docs, NPs, & teams who have offered a primary care home. It's a huge team effort👏, great progress, more to do.

ICYMI. Calling all family doctors, NPs, teams. Here's your opportunity of funding interprofessional primary care teams to build a primary care system for Ontario where everyone has a primary care home. OHTs & PCNs helping organize by geography. We can do this! #primarycarematters

UNLOCKED | A great primer for tonight’s Politics & the Pen: Q&As with all five Shaughnessy Cohen nominees Tanya Talaga @JanePhilpott Stephen Maher Raymond Blake & Alasdair Roberts. By @kateMalloy379 #cdnpoli hilltimes.com/story/2025/09/…

Thanks for caring about health for all!

Congratulations Raymond Blake🎉. Well deserved recognition for an important book. It was a pleasure to meet you & spend time with other nominees. Huge thanks to Writers' Trust & Politics and the Pen / La politique et l’écrit for organizing events. It was a treat to see friends & colleagues & celebrate writing📚

ICYMI: Ontario launched a call for proposals to create and expand approximately 75 primary care teams. 💰 $250M+ investment ✅ more convenient care 🩺 connecting 500,000 more people to #PrimaryCare news.ontario.ca/en/release/100… #HealthAccess

10 years after the #TRC: 94 Calls to Action — only 14 are fully implemented. Among the gaps: training & retaining Indigenous healthcare workers, integrating Indigenous health into curriculum. Dr. Jamaica Cass highlights some real solutions. healthsci.queensu.ca/stories/featur…

🗣️ Don’t miss @JanePhilpott, Denis Tsang, Leslee Thompson, and Jess Rumble at our opening panel on Day 1: “What Success Actually Looks Like When 100% of Ontarians Have Quality Primary Care”  at #AFHTO2025. Details: primarycareproud.ca

Great progress being made on access to primary care in Ontario by Jane Philpott, Sylvia Jones and team - initial waitlist has already been cut in half! news.ontario.ca/en/release/100…

As a first step in its $2.1B Primary Care Action Plan, the province committed to connect the 235,000 people on the Health Care Connect waitlist as of January 1, 2025 to primary care by spring 2026. As of this week, that initial waitlist has been reduced by half.