Register with Health Care Connect
Ontario’s free Health Care Connect program has a Care Connector search for a family doctor, nurse practitioner or primary care team accepting patients in your community, including Toronto. You need a valid Ontario health card, and the mailing address must match your health card. Register online or call 811 (TTY 711), 24/7. Urgent needs are matched first; registering does not guarantee a quick match, so keep calling clinics too. Full Health Care Connect guide →
While you wait
- Walk-in clinics and medically necessary phone/video visits are covered by OHIP with your health card (What OHIP covers).
- No family doctor and an urgent, non-life-threatening issue? Ontario Health-approved Virtual Urgent Care (nurse practitioners) is available by referral from Health811: call 811 or chat online.
- Pharmacists can prescribe for certain common ailments at no cost with your OHIP card (ontario.ca/page/pharmacies).
- Emergencies: call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department.
Guide: getting care while you wait →
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Last checked: October 13, 2026. Rules and phone numbers change; confirm with the official source links.