NDP, Liberals outline plans for primary health care at campaign stops Friday [Video]

The main Ontario party leaders have now laid out their plans on how to get primary care to millions of people without a family doctor.

NDP Leader Marit Stiles promised to connect every Ontarian to a family doctor or nurse practitioner if her party wins the election by focusing on building up the team-based primary care model at a cost of $4 billion.

“It’s a major shift that will make it easier and faster to get the care that you need,” Stiles said Friday at a campaign stop in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.

If elected, Stiles said her party would add 3,500 doctors to the primary care system over the next four years. She said 350 of those doctors would be in northern Ontario.

She would also establish a “northern command centre” to manage workforce capacity.

The plan would add 380 new primary care teams of doctors, nurse practitioners and …