Welcome to Ontario College of Family Physicians

We know that connecting your patients to specialist care and diagnostics is a challenge that takes up too much of your time and leaves patients waiting for answers about their health. To support you and your patients, we are working with government to prioritize the development and implementation of a central intake and referral system.

Important work is already underway to build this system for Ontario. We are supportive of this work and are asking for it to be accelerated (not rushed) to get patients coordinated and faster access to specialists and diagnostic testing. The solution must be co-designed with family physicians and specialists. We want to ensure the system provides access based on need and is transparent to patients, family physicians, and other specialists.