Whitby Council voted on July 26 to approve a new $300,000 capital project for 2023 for a Family Physician Recruitment Incentive Partnership Pilot Program with the Oshawa Clinic Group.
The goal of the program is to attract family physicians to the new Whitby Health Centre, opening in spring 2024, said a town notice.
It said the program will include a $500,000 incentive equally shared between the Town of Whitby and the Oshawa Clinic Group, providing 10 family physicians with an incentive of $50,000 each over a five-year term.
Each physician will be required to work an average of 35 hours per week at the Whitby Health Centre and must have a minimum roster of 400 patients in the first year and 1,000 patients by the third year and maintain this minimum until the end of the five-year term.