About 12,000 people in Sarnia-Lambton don’t have a primary care provider, says the head of the area’s Ontario Health Team.

And plans are underway to figure out how to fix that, said Nadine Neve.

“It’s really about what allied health or physician roles, nurse practitioner roles do we need,” she said.

The six-staff-member Sarnia-Lambton Ontario Health Team has been focused on boosting local primary care since this spring, as part of a provincial ambition to have every person connected with a family doctor or other primary care provider by 2029, said Neve.

She’s executive lead of the provincially-funded agency, formed in 2020 to help coordinate care with various healthcare and social service providers in the area.

Currently about 43 are partnered, she said Tuesday, during a presentatio

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