Ontario’s health minister says the province is on track to connect all Ontarians to a primary care provider by 2029, thanks in part to mostly clearing a wait list backlog.
Health Minister Sylvia Jones says about 275,000 people have been attached to primary care so far in the first year of the government’s plan.
More than half of that progress is due to moving people off the Health Care Connect wait list, but the auditor general has found it is underutilized, with just 11 per cent of people in need of a primary care provider on it and fewer than 10 per cent of family doctors enrolling patients from that list.