Toronto/CMEDIA: An arbitration award was received today by the Ontario government and the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) for the remaining three years of the 2024-28 Physician Services Agreement (PSA).
With increasing access to primary care and providing stable funding for staffing across the province, the agreement ensures families can access the care they need, when and where they need it.
Proud to lead the country with the highest rate of people attached to a primary care provider, Ontario has the largest health-care workforce and the highest compensation rates for primary care physicians across Canada.
The award includes significant investments to modernize the Family Health Organization (FHO) model to attract and retain more physicians facilitating connecting more Ontarians to care by encouraging doctors to take on new patients, supporting the shift of procedures from emergency departments to clinics and strengthening incentives for after-hours care.
To ensure patients continue to have timely access to hospital and specialist care, the OMA and the Ontario Ministry of Health have agreed to new funding measures to support in-hospital anesthesia services, support hospital on-call coverage and other initiatives.
The government will continue to work with the OMA to deliver on its plan to protect the provincial health-care system and to implement the next phase of this agreement to connect every person to primary care, the largest expansion of medical education in more than a decade, new programs that pay for school and supplies for family doctors and new community surgical and diagnostic centres.
