Quality of Life

Primary Care Provider

Key Messages
Trends Over Time
By Geography
Technical Notes

Key Messages

In the 2017/2018 fiscal year, 80% of Simcoe Muskoka residents had a primary care provider.
This is significantly higher than the provincial rate, with 76% of Ontario residents reporting a primary care provider.
This proportion has increased over time for both Simcoe Muskoka and Ontario as a whole.
The proportion of the population with a primary care provider varies within the health unit region. Residents of Couchiching and South Georgian Bay were the most likely to have a primary care provider, and those in South Simcoe were the least.

Trends Over Time

The proportion of both Simcoe Muskoka and Ontario residents with a primary care provider has increased significantly over the past nine years.
Simcoe Muskoka residents increased from 76% in the 2009/2010 fiscal year to 80% in the 2017/2018 fiscal year having primary care providers.
The proportion of Ontario residents with a primary care provider increased from 68% in the 2009/2010 fiscal year to 76% in the 2017/2018 fiscal year.

PCPByYear_SMvsON

By Geography

The proportion of the population with a primary care provider varies across Simcoe Muskoka.
A significantly higher proportion (85%) of people living in Couchiching and South Georgian Bay had primary care providers, compared to Simcoe Muskoka as a whole.
There was a significantly lower percentage of residents with primary care providers in Muskoka (79%), South Simcoe (78%) and Barrie and Area (79%).
All communities within Simcoe Muskoka had higher rates of primary care provider coverage than the provincial average.

PCPbyGeoArea

Technical Notes

This information was extracted from the Primary Care Population Database (PCPOP), which includes information about all eligible Ontario residents and their registered primary health care provider. The 2017/18 fiscal year covers the period from April 1^st, 2017 through to and including March 31^st, 2018.

Information presented on this page is from the report by Refik Saskin and Luis Palma titled Health status and behaviours of residents of the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit. The report was completed on May 25, 2020 as part of the response to an Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Applied Health Research Question (AHRQ) submitted to the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU). The data source citation for counts, rates and other figures extracted from the report is: ICES AHRQ Project 2020 0950 055 000.

This AHQR study was supported by ICES, which is funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health. Parts of this material are based on data and/or information compiled and provided by CIHI. The opinions, results and conclusions are those of the authors and are independent from the funding and data sources. No endorsement by ICES, the Ontario Ministry of Health, or CIHI is intended or should be inferred. The contents and interpretation of this web page are solely the responsibility of SMDHU.