About Us
The North Durham Family Health Team (NDFHT) is a service funded by Ontario Health that supports clients in achieving their best health.
We are a team of skilled allied health professionals working collaboratively to serve and expand medical services within Port Perry and its surrounding community. Our team is comprised of the following professionals:
Nurse Practitioners
Pharmacists
Social Workers
Diabetes Educators
Dietitians
Nurses
Chiropodists
Respiratory Therapist
Smoking Cessation Counsellor
Health Care Navigator
Formed in 2011 as part of a Ministry of Health initiative, our priority is to help people achieve their best health. We are committed to ensuring patients have access to timely, high-quality medical services close to home. To help people achieve their best health, the NDFHT offers many programs and services at no cost to the patient.
Many of our programs and services are available in person and virtually and we are located within Port Perry and its surrounding community. Our team collaborates with health care partners in the community, working together to avoid duplication, while providing seamless and secure communication to ensure patients have access to timely, high-quality primary care.
We focus on inter-professional programs focused on chronic disease management, disease prevention, and health promotion, and we fully support a care delivery system designed to improve patient and population health outcomes. By holistically designing care for our clients, we intend to improve client and population health outcomes; client, family and caregiver experiences; provider experiences; and value.
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Vision
Working together with our community to enhance primary health care services.
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Mission
To provide comprehensive team-based primary health care through an inter-disciplinary approach, while optimizing the health of individuals, families, and our community.
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Strategic Directions
Population Health (seniors, complex diseases, mental health and addictions, unattached patients, Indigenous population), Access and Flow, Equity, Inclusion and Diversity, Experience, & Safety.
Board of Directors 2025-26
Dr. Ankelly Armstrong – President, Chair
Lauryn Lee - Vice President
Dr. Pam Dyall – Secretary/Treasurer
Dr. Nadine MacDonald
Dr. Sue Shepherd
Dr. Kim Ferguson
Martha Casson
Community Partners
Alzheimer Society of Durham Region - Brock Community Health Centre - Community Care Durham - Durham Ontario Health Team - Lakeridge Health - Medical Associates of Port Perry - Mississauga’s of Scugog Island First Nation - North House - Region of Durham - Toronto Street Medical Centre, Uxbridge - Township of Scugog - Uxbridge Health Centre - Westshore Village Retirement Living
Alzheimer Society of Durham Region - Brock Community Health Centre - Community Care Durham - Durham Ontario Health Team - Lakeridge Health - Medical Associates of Port Perry - Mississauga’s of Scugog Island First Nation - North House - Region of Durham - Toronto Street Medical Centre, Uxbridge - Township of Scugog - Uxbridge Health Centre - Westshore Village Retirement Living

