The provincial government is investing up to $18 million to support planning for 16 new and expanded primary-care teaching clinics across the province, including one in Belleville, to connect 300,000 more people to primary care.
Queen’s University currently operates the Queen’s Family Health Team (QFHT) Belleville Clinic on Station Street providing patient care and training family medicine residents.
Each clinic, including Belleville, will receive up to $500,000.
They will offer training that combines direct patient care with hands-on learning in team-based environments.
Family medicine residents will train in a team-based model alongside other health-care professionals, such as nurse practitioners, physician assistants and registered nurses.
“These new primary care teaching clinics will further protect our health-care system by training the next generation of primary care clinicians, right here in Ontario,” said Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health. “This builds on our government’s unprecedented investments in primary care that will ensure anyone who wants to connect to a primary care clinician can have reliable access to primary care, no matter where they live.”
The investment is part of the government’s $2.1 billion Primary Care Action Plan to connect everyone in Ontario to primary care by 2029.
