Your Health Act

February 22, 2023

With the Your Health Act, 2023, this government is being bold, innovative and creative to break with a status quo in our health care system that has stifled innovation and struggled to respond to growing challenges and changing needs.

We’re making it easier and faster for people to connect to convenient care closer to home, including and especially the surgeries they need to maintain a high quality of life

Based on feedback from frontline partners, the Act will:

• enhance guardrails to integrate community and surgical diagnostic centres into the health system,
• enhance quality standards and oversight, and
• protect the stability of the health care workforce in public hospitals and other health-care settings.

Consistent with the Canada Health Act, the Your Health Act, 2023 will put into place strong measures to ensure that Ontarians will always receive insured services using their OHIP card, never their credit card. Under Premier Ford, that will never change.

If an individual believes they did not receive the highest quality care, the Your Health Act, 2023 will mandate that every community surgical and diagnostic centre have a process for receiving and responding to patient complaints. If someone believes their complaint was not adequately addressed at the centre, they will be able to seek help from Ontario’s patient ombudsman.

The Your Health Act, 2023 will also enable “As of Right” rules that allow health care workers registered in other provinces and territories to immediately start working and caring for people in Ontario and strengthens protections for personal health information and data.

Learn More: https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1002732/ontario-reducing-wait-times-for-publicly-funded-surgeries-and-diagnostics