The appointment of Philpott, a former federal Liberal cabinet minister, is intended to ‘close the gap’ for the estimated ten per cent of Ontarians who aren’t linked to a primary health care team, the government says
Premier Doug Ford ’s government has appointed former federal Liberal cabinet minister Jane Philpott to lead a new primary care action team, with a mandate to connect every person in Ontario to primary care within five years.
But the government has defended its record on health care, pointing to research from the Canadian Institute for Health Information. According to the CIHI, 90 per cent of people inIn her own recent remarks, Dr. Philpott has estimated that 2.5 million Ontarians do not have a family doctor nor any other access to primary care, and that number is projected to grow to 4.4 million people in 2026.
Dr. Philpott will begin her position as chair and lead of the new primary care action team on Dec. 1. Her role is to provide and implement a plan to ensure the Ontario Health Minister can “further expand team-based primary health care across the province,” the government said. “There’s no one I trust more than Dr. Philpott with her considerable experience to keep moving us forward and get us across the finish line of connecting everyone in the province to more convenient primary health care within the next five years,” Ms. Jones said in a statement.
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