PRIMARY CARE EASY ACCESS LIST: Major Primary Care Reports, Analyses, Backgrounders, Fact Sheets, Briefing Notes & Media Releases

Posted: July 27, 2020

This page is continually updated.

On this page you can find a roundup of Ontario Health Coalition Primary Care:

1. Reports & Analyses
2. Backgrounders, Facts Sheets & Briefing Notes
3. Media Releases

Reports/Analyses

• RELEASE & REPORT: Illegal, Unlawful and Unethical: Case Studies of Patients Charged for Medical Care in Ontario’s Private Clinics (4/16/2024)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Fraud, criminal conviction, misrepresentation and unlawful user fees: New report exposes a “Wild West” of for-profit health care in Ottawa private clinics (3/8/2024)
• LETTER & EVENTS: Call for Human Rights Inquiry Into Systemic Discrimination Against the Elderly in Ontario Hospitals and Long-Term Care (3/16/2021)
• RELEASE, ANALYSIS & BRIEFING NOTE: Health Care Omnibus Bill Sets Up Ontario for Health System Mega-Mergers & Privatization: Worse than the Leaked Draft, Health Coalition Warns (4/1/2019)
• ANALYSIS: Ontario Health Coalition Analysis of the First Ministers’ Health Accord (3/15/2013)
• Ontario Health Coalition: Submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy on Bill 102, Transparent Drug System for Patients Act, 2006 (5/29/2006)
• ANALYSIS: Preliminary Analysis of the Romanow Report from the Canadian Health Coalition and the Canadian Labour Congress (11/28/2002)
• REPORT: OHC Primary Care Reform Position Paper (5/15/2002)

Backgrounders/Fact Sheets/Briefing Notes

• JUST THE FACTS: Facts About Health Care, Cuts & Privatization (3/3/2022)
• UPDATE: Mounting Health Care Cuts (11/20/2019)
• UPDATE: Mounting Health Care Cuts (8/3/2019)
• RELEASE, ANALYSIS & BRIEFING NOTE: Health Care Omnibus Bill Sets Up Ontario for Health System Mega-Mergers & Privatization: Worse than the Leaked Draft, Health Coalition Warns (4/1/2019)

Media Releases

• RELEASE: Ford government’s primary care announcement plays politics with people’s need for a family doctor: It’s a primary care “plan” to implement a plan delayed until the cusp of an election (1/27/2025)
• RELEASE: Health Coalition fully supports bill banning 2-tier clinics, increasing fines and expanding public access (10/24/2024)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Illegal, Unlawful and Unethical: Case Studies of Patients Charged for Medical Care in Ontario’s Private Clinics (4/16/2024)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Fraud, criminal conviction, misrepresentation and unlawful user fees: New report exposes a “Wild West” of for-profit health care in Ottawa private clinics (3/8/2024)
• RELEASE, ANALYSIS & BRIEFING NOTE: Health Care Omnibus Bill Sets Up Ontario for Health System Mega-Mergers & Privatization: Worse than the Leaked Draft, Health Coalition Warns (4/1/2019)
• RELEASE: Warning that Leaked Health Care Omnibus Bill Would Create Health Care Chaos: Longstanding Leaders of Organizations Representing Patients, Care Workers, Doctors (2/11/2019)
• RELEASE: Ontario Election 2018 Health Care Resources (6/4/2018)
• RELEASE: $22 billion in cuts to funding for public services planned by Mr. Ford, worse than Harris, we are “extremely worried” (6/3/2018)