Call for flexible government funding models for nurse practitioners (NP) in Ontario to bolster their Integration into the province’s primary care settings, improve patients’ access to care services, and reduce emergency department wait times

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) continue advocating to the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ministry of Long-Term Care (MOLTC) for flexible funding models for nurse practitioners (NP) in Ontario to bolster their integration into the province’s primary care settings by recognizing the current NP funding models in Ontario as impediments (insufficient) to NPs practising to their full capacity. We call on the government of Ontario, the MOH and the MOLTC to embrace NPs as valued components of the primary care, to acknowledge the need for novel approaches in light of funding models for NPs. Additional funding models must enable independent practice without user fees.