In a recent survey, 94% of family doctors who responded told the OCFP that you want our support in advocating to the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) and Section of General & Family Practice (SGFP) on compensation issues in the next Physician Services Agreement, OMA Negotiations Task Force.  

We heard you – and we acted. 

OCFP listened to your feedback and convened a working group. As requested by the OMA, our recommendations have been submitted, and we will continue to support SGFP efforts. 

About our submission: 

• Representing 15,000 family doctors in various practice models, our submission focuses on the most pressing needs to ensure the viability of family medicine as a profession and the delivery of comprehensive, longitudinal family medicine. 
• The OMA Negotiations Task Force requested submissions from stakeholders to inform priorities for the upcoming negotiation process. 

Snapshot of OCFP recommendations:  

• The 2024 Physician Services Agreement should support all family doctors, regardless of compensation model and clinical activity. 
• Increase compensation for all family doctors, including increased compensation relative to other physicians.
• Introduce compensation for unpaid administrative work and address the inappropriate administrative burden, i.e., simplify specialist referrals through expansion of e-referrals and standardize forms. 
• Modernize funding and ensure bonuses and incentives are aligned with current healthcare needs including population health priorities and access to family doctors.  
• Support the delivery of comprehensive, longitudinal family medicine: 

1. Address the challenges posed by negation. 
2. Introduce improved compensation to reflect the additional work of caring for patients with social and medical complexities. 
3. Evolve compensation models to better match today’s family doctors’ needs.  

SGFP survey:

The OCFP encourages family doctors to take the SGFP survey by May 26: 

• The SGFP Payment Reform Working Group, together with the SGFP Executive, invites you to share your ideas and priorities.  
• It takes about 10-15 minutes and must be completed in one sitting. 
• Find the survey here.  

What's Next

Family doctors need deep and meaningful changes right now that reflect your value and contribution. OCFP will continue our work:  

• Align with and support the SGFP as they build recommendations for the OMA Negotiations Task Force. 
• Share our recommendations for the upcoming negotiations with the Ontario Ministry of Health’s negotiation team. 
• Continue to advocate for the Physician Services Agreement to address family doctor priorities. 

Media Update

• Next week, OCFP will release additional survey data that further demonstrates the crisis in family medicine.
• On World Family Doctor Day, we issued a public statement detailing unrelenting administrative burden family doctors are facing and the urgent need for solutions.  
• See media coverage:  

1. Ontario doctors call for urgent action, CP24  
2. World Family Doctor Day, iheartradio.ca  
3. Cambridge doctor urges province to cut red tape on World Family Doctor Day, CambridgeToday.ca  
4. World Family Doctor Day, Global News (starts at 2:11) 

• See some of our social media advocacy to cut the red tape and reduce the admin burden  

See support for our news release from SGFP:

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