A second fee-for-service family physician is joining the Northcrest Medical Clinic in April.
Dr. Onifade will join his colleague Dr. Tosin Tifase, who began working Northcrest Pharmacy and Medical Clinic in February 2025 after relocating from the United Kingdom with support from the City of Peterborough’s physician recruitment coordinator Chantal Van Parys.
The support Dr. Tifase received from Van Parys encouraged him to recommend Dr. Onifade also relocate to Peterborough, according to a media release from the city.
Dr. Tifase and Dr. Onifade provides family practice services for rostered patients during regular and after-hours sessions, including urgent care. Dr. Tosin has rostered 2,200 patients and, with the addition of Dr. Onifade, the clinic expects to serve another 2,000 patients without a regular family doctor.
Formerly Fadhil’s Pharmasave and owned by Vijay Sappani and Sam Kanni, Northcrest Pharmasave Pharmacy and Northcrest Medical Clinic is located at 184 Marina Boulevard and is open six days a week.
Clinic hours for registered family medicine patients are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Sunday, by appointment only. For family practice registration, visit the clinic in person to complete a registration form.
Both Dr. Tifase and Dr. Onifade are fee-for-service physicians. In this model, doctors submit a bill to the provincial government for every service or procedure they perform according to a schedule of services and fees negotiated with the province.
According to the Canadian Medical Association, around 70 per cent of doctor payments in Canada are fee-for-service, and 96 per cent of doctors in Canada receive at least a portion of their compensation through this model.
The other model for doctor payments is known as capitation where, instead of being paid per service, doctors receive a fixed annual payment for every patient they add to their roster. The Canadian Medical Association states that family physicians in Ontario are increasingly shifting to capitation models. Around 60 per cent of family physicians now use either a fully capitated payment model or a blended one that combines fee-for-service and capitation.
The OHIP fee-for-service model is commonly used in many health care settings, including long-term care, where physicians often bill OHIP using fee-for-service codes alongside other supports, as well as in many independent and urgent care clinics.
The original version of this story has been updated with information about how doctors receive payment in Ontario (fee-for-service and capitation).
