Primary Care Act, 2025

1 In this Act, “insured person” has the same meaning as in the Health Insurance Act; (“assuré”) “Minister” means the Minister of Health or such other member of the Executive Council to whom responsibility for the administration of this Act may be assigned or transferred under the Executive Council Act; (“ministre”) “personal health information” has the same meaning as in the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004. (“renseignements personnels sur la santé”)

2 The purpose of this Act is to establish the Government of Ontario’s vision for primary care so that insured persons know what they should expect when accessing primary care within Ontario.

3 The Government of Ontario shall have the following objectives in its design, implementation and maintenance of the publicly funded primary care system within Ontario: 1. Province-wide: Insured persons across the Province should have the opportunity to have a documented and ongoing relationship with a primary care clinician or team. 2. Connected: Insured persons should have the opportunity to receive primary care services that are co-ordinated with existing health and social services. 3. Convenient: Insured persons should have access to timely primary care services. 4. Inclusive: Insured persons should have the opportunity to receive primary care services that are free from barriers and free from discrimination prohibited by the Human Rights Code or the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. 5. Empowered: Insured persons should have the opportunity to access their personal health info…

4 (1) The Minister shall prepare an annual report describing how the Government of Ontario is working to achieve the objectives set out in section 3 in its design, implementation and maintenance of the publicly funded primary care system within Ontario. Contents of report (2) The report shall include such information as the Minister considers appropriate and the following information: 1. The percentage of insured persons in Ontario who have an ongoing relationship with a primary care clinician or team. 2. Such other information as may be prescribed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council. Report to be made public (3) The Minister shall make the first report available to the public no later than one year following the day this Act comes into force and each subsequent report no later than one year following the day the most recent report was published.

5 Nothing in this Act or any regulation made under this Act establishes a private law right or duty, including a private law duty of care or fiduciary duty, owing to any person.

6 Failure to comply with this Act or any regulation made under this Act does not affect the validity of any policy, Act, regulation, directive, instrument or decision.

7 The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations, (a) defining or clarifying the meaning of any word or expression used in this Act that is not otherwise defined in this Act; (b) setting out additional details regarding the objectives set out in section 3; (c) prescribing information for the purpose of paragraph 2 of subsection 4 (2), which may include key performance indicators; (d) governing the manner in which the report mentioned in section 4 is to be made available to the public. 8 Omitted (provides for coming into force of provisions of this Act). 9 Omitted (enacts short title of this Act). ______________