Grant: Catalyst Grant: Partnering for Impact - Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research

Everyone in Canada should have access to high-quality, equitable primary care. The OurCare Standard, developed with input from nearly 10,000 Canadians, outlines what good primary care should look like. It sets clear expectations, including timely access to care, culturally safe services, strong care teams, and accountability to patients and communities. Ontario has already made this public vision part of law through the new Primary Care Act, which requires annual public reporting on how the system is performing. Our proposed work will help turn this vision into reality by creating a practical, consensus-driven set of equity-grounded measures to assess whether health systems are truly delivering on the OurCare Standard. Working with patients, health providers, policymakers, and researchers-including people from structurally marginalized communities-we will review existing measures, identify gaps, and co-develop new ways to measure primary care performance. Through this process, we will establish a concise, practical set of measures that are meaningful, equity-focused, and reflect what Canadians value most in primary care, helping governments and organizations make improvements and report progress in a transparent way.