Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government has named former federal Liberal Health Minister Jane Philpott to a new role overseeing efforts to connect every Ontarian to primary health care over the next five years. next years.
The Ontario Medical Association says more than 2.5 million Ontarians don’t have a family doctor.
Philpott, dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University and chair of the Faculty of Medicine, said in a statement that he would like to see 100 per cent of Ontarians committed to family doctors or nurse practitioners working in state-funded teams.
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Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones said she no longer has confidence in Philpott to achieve that goal.
Philpott’s new role leading a new primary care action team at the Department of Health begins on December 1 and the government says he will build on the inter-professional primary care model he designed with his colleagues from the Ontario Health team in Frontenac, Lennox and Addington. .
The government says the plan will include ensuring better services on weekends and after hours, reducing the administrative burden on family doctors and other primary care professionals, and improving connections with specialists and healthcare providers. digital tools.
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