Ontario appoints former federal Liberal health minister as chair of primary care team – CTV
Oct. 21, 2024
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government is appointing former federal Liberal health minister Jane Philpott to a new role overseeing attempts to connect every Ontarian to primary care within the next five years.
The Ontario Medical Association says there are more than 2.5 million Ontarians without a family doctor.
Philpott, dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University and director of its School of Medicine, says in a statement that she wants to see 100 per cent of Ontarians attached to a family doctor or nurse practitioner working in a publicly funded team.
Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones says there is no one she trusts more than Philpott to achieve that goal.
Philpott’s new role as chair of a new primary care action team in the Ministry of Health starts Dec. 1 and the government says she will draw on an interprofessional model of primary care that she designed with colleagues in the Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Ontario Health Team.
