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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.

As one physician takes a step back from her family practice, a new one takes their position; seamlessly assuming a full roster of patients. Peterborough, ON – The City of Peterborough and Peterborough Family Health Team are delighted to welcome Dr. Rachel van Oostveen to the City of Peterborough, as the first physician in the […]

But we are around and it is making a sound. It’s the sound of 32,000 area residents without a family doctor, a figure that the Ontario College of Family Physicians projects to grow to 63,000 by 2026. How did we get here? It has taken years of neglect of primary care by successive governments, be […]

On Tuesday, February 6, CEO, Duff Sprague spoke with CBC Radio on the announcement of the Peterborough CHC. This announcement is good news for our community; however, this is just a first step in the right direction to investing in the foundation of Ontario’s healthcare system. We encourage you to listen to the full interview […]

The following press release is from Ontario’s Ministry of Health and was announced at the Peterborough Family Health Team. PETERBOROUGH — The Ontario government is investing $110 million to connect up to 328,000 people to primary care teams, bringing the province one step closer to connecting everyone in Ontario to primary care. “Our government is […]