Ontario fully supports the federal government's push to make health-care funding contingent on data reporting, the province said Thursday as it announced a plan to boost access to primary care doctors.
Provincial and territorial premiers are set to meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau next week to hash out a deal on the Canada Health Transfer.
The president of the Ontario Hospital Association said hospitals across the province already track more than 1,000 indicators that measure hospital performance. "If we don’t measure our performance, we can’t fully see how gaps in service are affecting patient care and come up with solutions to fix them quickly," the document said.
The province is investing $30 million to create 18 new primary care health teams, which could include doctors, nurses, social workers, pharmacists and others, she said."These family health organizations will be required to provide comprehensive primary care services, extended evening and weekend hours of practice and provide more weekend coverage so you can access a family physician when you need it," the province's plan said.
The province's now-defunct independent science table told the government in the fall that the burden of COVID-19 going forward will sit on the shoulders of primary care doctors. Dr. Mekalai Kumanan, the president of the Ontario College of Family Physicians, welcomed the primary care expansion plans.
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