Primary Care Toolkit Website
for Family Physicians

As primary care evolves in our Canadian health system, there is a special growing need to support family physicians as they experience change in their day-to-day practices as well as in their community leadership roles.

This website: Primary Care Toolkit for Family Physicians, is provided by The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) to help translate, share and disseminate knowledge and management information.

The CFPC will continue to maintain this toolkit as a resource to family physician leaders and their associates who are experiencing the numerous changes in primary care. We welcome feedback and complementary resources from those using the site.

What's New

A Vision for Canada: Family Practice – The Patient’s Medical Home. The document provides an important vision of the future of frontline patient-centred care to meet the health care needs for all Canadians through specific goals and recommendations.

Best Advice – Panel Size The objective of this tool is to provide a guide for Canadian family physicians on factors affecting practice panel size and the consideration of measures of performance and quality of care.

You’ve Got Mail! What Family Physicians Should Know Before Hitting “Send” identifies the legal risks family physicians face when emailing their patients; issues around privacy and security of personal information; and timeliness issues of email communication.

Group Billing Practices by Province/Territory in Canada This chart identifies Group Billing Practices by Province/Territory in Canada.

Don’t forget – we are always interested in what you think. Please contact Patricia Marturano at pmarturano@cfpc.ca with your comments. Your valuable feedback will enable us to make the Primary Care Toolkit an even better resource.