Province opens the Purse Strings
Annual funding is on the rise for the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund.
The province has allocated an additional $30 million over the next three years.
Officials say it will support continued economic development in the north, including the expansion of program eligibility to the District of Muskoka.
“We are listening to our northern partners, which is why we are increasing the annual NOHFC funding allocation and expanding programming eligibility,” says Greg Rickford, Minister of Northern Development.
The announcement brings total annual NOHFC funding to $110 million in 2025-26.
Meantime, the province is investing $1.8 billion to connect two million more people to a publicly funded family doctor or primary care team within four years.
Officials say it includes $1.4 billion in new funding, alongside more than $400 million in already-approved funding for primary care.
“Through our government’s record investments in primary care, we have been able to achieve the highest rate of access to regular health care providers in the country,” says Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health. “With this historic, transformative investment, we can now achieve our goal of connecting every person in the province who wants a primary care provider.”
Ontario’s Primary Care Action Team will use the money to implement its action plan to build a primary care system that draws on best-in-class models from across the province and connects everyone to a family doctor or primary care team.
Interprofessional primary care teams are made up of a family physician or nurse practitioner and other health care professionals such as nurses, physician assistants, social workers, dieticians and more.
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