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Share your priorities for team-based care

Updated: May 6, 2025

Expanding team-based primary care is a key part of the Ontario government’s plan to fulfill its election promise to connect all Ontarians to primary care close to home. 

As I shared in April, the Ontario government launched a call for proposals to create and expand 80 interprofessional primary care teams. The OCFP is committed to ensuring that family physicians, agnostic of model, can participate in team-based care expansion efforts. And importantly, that those teams are efficient and designed to help you in your practice. 

So that we can best amplify your needs and those of your patients, please take about five minutes to complete this survey. The survey will remain open until Friday, May 16 at 5 p.m.

We want to hear from you about what can be improved upon in the government’s proposal process for the next round in September, so that you have the resources that would be most helpful to support your complex patients, allow you to care for more patients, and increase your job satisfaction and wellbeing.  

I also want to acknowledge the thoughtful feedback from those of you who voiced concerns with the government’s recent call for proposals, including the short application timeline, the constraints associated with a process based primarily on creating or joining existing interprofessional care models such as FHTs and CHCs and, more broadly, concerns about prioritizing team-based care over other urgent needs in family medicine.  

Creating a more supportive practice environment for all family physicians, in addition to more equitable family physician access to team-based care, remains firmly on our radar and a continued focus of our work. I am confident that meaningful progress lies ahead, including through other government funding commitments such as improving your access to digital tools and a centralized referral system.  

In the meantime, once again, we will value your perspectives to help shape our recommendations for the next round of proposals. Together with your insights, we will ensure your needs inform the government’s next steps.