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Action on Wait Times
The Ontario government is creating a health care system that helps people stay healthy, delivers good care to them when they get sick, and will be there for their children and grandchildren. A dependable system, now and into the future.
Wait times are one of the ways we all measure the quality of the health care we are receiving. A critical part of the government's overall plan for health care is reducing wait times and improving access to five major health services: cancer surgery, cardiac procedures, cataract surgery, hip and knee replacements, as well as MRI and CT exams. As part of its Wait Times Strategy, the Government of Ontario is :
- Funding more procedures. Since 2004, the government has funded about 657,000 additional medical procedures.
- For the first time in Ontario, collecting wait times information and making it available on a website so Ontarians can make better decisions about their health care and track the government's progress on reducing wait times.
Below are links to press releases and speeches associated with Ontario's Wait Times Strategy.
| Search Index |
| News Releases and Backgrounders |
| September 12 |
Improving Access to Key Healthcare Surgeries and Procedures Across Ontario |
| May 18, 2006 |
McGuinty Government Reducing Health Care Wait Times |
| April 28, 2006 |
McGuinty Government Reduces Health Care Wait Times and Invests $222.5 Million in More Procedures
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| Jan. 13, 2006 |
McGuinty Government Reducing Wait Times for Hip and Knee Replacements
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| Dec. 16, 2005 |
McGuinty Government Announces Ontario Wait Time Targets |
| Dec. 12, 2005 |
First Ever Common Benchmarks Will Allow Canadians to Measure progress in Reducing Wait Times |
| Oct. 24, 2005 |
McGuinty Government First to Give Ontarians Access to Current Wait Times Information |
| Oct. 21, 2005 |
McGuinty Government Invests in new Cancer Radiation and Diagnostic Equipment |
| Oct. 3, 2005 |
McGuinty Government Invests in additional cataract and hip and knee surgeries, and MRI scans |
| May 27, 2005 |
McGuinty Government announces largest increases in a decade for cataract surgery, hip and knee replacements and MRI scans
Backgrounder : Improving Access To Five Key Healthcare Surgeries And Procedures
Backgrounder : Expanding MRI Services In Ontario |
| April 6, 2005 |
Ontario Health Minister Welcomes Report on Wait Times that Sets Baseline For Government To Measure Key Healthcare Results |
| Feb. 03, 2005 |
McGuinty Government Reduces Wait Times By Delivering 119,865 Additional MRI, CT, Cancer And Cardiac Procedures
Backgrounders : Wait Times Strategy for MRI, CT, Cancer And Cardiac Procedures
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| Dec. 20, 2004 |
McGuinty Government Launches New Website on the Province's Wait Time Strategy |
| Dec. 14, 2004 |
McGuinty Government Reduces Wait Times for Key Surgeries, delivering 5,380 more cancer, cataract and hip and knee replacement surgeries. |
| Nov. 17, 2004 |
McGuinty Government Provides Better Access to Key Health Services with immediate investment of $107 million for additional surgeries and procedures, new and more efficient diagnostic machines, as well as expanded hours of operations. |
| Speeches |
| Nov. 17, 2004 |
Speaking Notes Presented by George Smitherman, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care to OHA 80th Annual Convention |
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