![]() trip to the emergency room with your child or a routine check-up with your family doctor. Our core promise to every person in Ontario is this: you will be connected to the health care you need when you need it. We are focused on connecting you to the care you need, when and where you need it.ĭeputy Premier and Minister of Health A Vision for Patient-Centred Care We are preparing for the future by putting aside the ideas of the past. ![]() Whether that’s by expanding access to services in your home or community, giving you the choice to book or take an appointment virtually, or ensuring a hospital bed is there for you when you need it. ![]() With Your Health: A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care we will continue to prioritize making it easier for you and your family to connect to the care you need. We’re adding nearly 60,000 new and upgraded long-term care beds and increasing the amount of care residents receive so seniors can live with dignity.īut we must do more - and we are doing more. We’re building new hospitals in every region of the province. We have expanded Ontario’s health workforce with more doctors, nurses and personal support workers. Over the last several years we have made progress. And by expanding access to home and community care services so you can stay safely at home. By cutting wait times for services like MRI and CT scans and cataract surgeries. By expanding the number of community surgical and diagnostic centres. We will do this by increasing access to services in health care settings near you - like in pharmacies by increasing the number of assessments and treatments that can be provided by your local pharmacist without a doctor’s appointment. Our goal is to make health care more convenient for Ontarians by connecting you to care closer to home. And we need to be clear: Ontarians will always access the health care they need with their OHIP card, never their credit card. We need to have the courage to look to other provinces and countries and borrow the best of what the world is already doing. We need to build on the spirit of collaboration on display across the health care sector. ![]() We need to be bold, innovative and creative. Too many people are waiting too long to get an appointment or surgery, having to travel too far to get care, and spending too much time trying to navigate our health care system. For too many people, health care is too hard and slow to access. I’ve been grateful to hear from many of them that they are collaborating across the health sector in higher numbers than ever before.īut I have also seen that our health care system and our health care workers are under incredible pressure. I’ve met with nurses, doctors, personal support workers, pharmacists, hospital leaders and health professionals in long-term care homes and those who provide care directly in your homes. I have witnessed the brilliance of our health care workers and their dedication to providing care to their patients. I have seen the delivery of world-class cancer care in Toronto, lifesaving pediatric care in Ottawa, state-of-the-art mental health care in Penetanguishene and I’ve had the opportunity to engage with dedicated health care workers across the province. Since being appointed Ontario’s Minister of Health, I have travelled across the province to the frontlines of our health care system.
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