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The Peterborough Family Health Team (PFHT) is launching the Connect Clinic. This new clinic will help the many people in Peterborough City and County who do not have a family doctor or nurse practitioner. The Connect Clinic will provide care to patients while they wait to get a permanent family doctor or nurse practitioner. Local family doctors and nurse practitioners provide timely access to acute, […]

The Peterborough Family Health Team (PFHT) is launching the Connect Clinic. This new clinic will help the many people in Peterborough City and County who do not have a family doctor or nurse practitioner. The Connect Clinic will provide care to patients while they wait to get a permanent family doctor or nurse practitioner. Local […]

The CEO of the Peterborough Family Health Team is urging the Ontario government to address ongoing wage, funding and administrative challenges facing primary care teams, despite recent provincial investments. Listen Now

PETERBOROUGH, ON— Duff Sprague, CEO of the Peterborough Family Health Team (PFHT) appeared before the MPPs who sit on the Ontario government’s pre-budget consultation committee on December 5, 2025. Sprague highlighted for the committee members several pressing issues, including wage disparities, access to care for unattached patients and budget constraints. [See News Release]

PETERBOROUGH, ON— Medical learners from the Rural Ontario Medical Program (ROMP) visit Peterborough Family Health Team on Thursday, May 29, for a day of immersive education and exposure to real-world primary care during the 2025 ROMP Week. The 10 students join local Peterborough family doctors to gain valuable insight in the family medicine world. [See […]

On May 26, 2025, local family physician, Dr. Madura Sundareswaran guest blogged for Just an Old Family Doctor. Her blog post, Primary Care Reform Needs More Than a Phone Call captures the good and the bad of Ontario Health’s strategy for connecting people to primary health care. “I’d like to apply the trending analogy of comparing […]

Key Information: A website called ca is misleading residents by suggesting it can connect them with local Peterborough family doctors for a fee; Family doctors will not charge people to become a rostered patient; Family doctors rarely charge for services – if they do, patients are told in advance; and In Ontario, to get a […]

PETERBOROUGH, ON – Early this year, the PFHT Health Clinic acquired a new clinic space with additional exam rooms allowing it to expand appointments for Peterborough city and county residents who do not have a family doctor in Ontario. This new clinic space at 555 George Street North is the main location for “unattached services” […]

This morning, CEO, Duff Sprague, was invited to speak on CBC radio to discuss the crisis of lack of access to family physicians. In this interview, Duff explains that the government announcements to strengthen primary care and family medicine won’t be achievable if changes don’t happen systemically for our family physicians and other clinicians on […]

ROMP Week is in full swing as first-year medical students jaunt through Peterborough’s medical community to experience the different areas of healthcare. Today, the rural learners accompany family physicians to understand their important role in the frontier of medicine.