Ontario is a long way from providing everyone with the most fundamental connection to care.
In Ontario, that would be what former premier Kathleen Wynne liked to call “a stretch goal.”
Even if one is lucky enough to have a doctor now, there is no guarantee for the future. According to the Ontario College of Family Physicians, in 2019 1.7 million Ontarians had a family doctor who was about to retire. In that same year, 4.9 million Ontarians had a family doctor older than 55. Add in population expansion and an aging population and you’ve got a significant problem.
The Doug Ford government has taken some commendable steps to expand training for doctors and nurses and to make it easier for foreign-trained doctors and other medical professionals to work in the province. In the last two budgets, the government has added a combined 260 new places for medical undergraduates and 349 for postgraduate training.
One of the authors of the Inspire-PRC study estimates that 1.700 doctors would be required to meet existing need in Ontario. The government has no figure of its own.
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