The Ontario government says it is investing more than $3.4 billion through its Primary Care Action Plan as it works toward connecting everyone in the province to a family doctor or primary care team by 2029.
The province says nearly 90 per cent of Ontarians are currently connected to a primary care provider.
Two rounds of funding through the action plan have resulted in 199 successful applicants for new and expanded interprofessional primary care teams. The latest round includes 124 successful applicants, which are expected to connect another 500,000 patients to primary care across Ontario, including people currently on the Health Care Connect waitlist.
The government says the overall plan is expected to connect approximately two million more people to primary care by 2029.
Ontario has also announced plans to advance a new provincewide Primary Care Medical Record system, which the government says will integrate patient records, reduce administrative work for clinicians and improve the coordination of care.
The province says more than 20,000 physicians have been added to Ontario’s health-care workforce since 2018, including an increase of more than 14 per cent in family doctors.
The announcement was made during a visit to the Women’s College Academic Family Health Team in Toronto. The team received more than $3.3 million through the 2025-26 call for proposals and began attaching patients to care in August 2025.
The government says the team has since signed up more than 10,000 patients, exceeding its original target of 7,825.
Residents looking for a family doctor, nurse practitioner or primary care team can register through Health Care Connect.
