Ontario Reducing Wait Times for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Procedures

As part of the Your Health plan, the government is taking the next step to make it faster and easier for people to connect to publicly-funded surgeries and procedures by adding 60,000 more gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy procedures at community surgical and diagnostic centres across the province each year.

The call for applications opens today, with new licenses to be issued starting in Winter 2025. This expansion of service will help reduce wait times for GI endoscopy procedures across the  the province, ensuring everyone who needs a procedure receives it within the medically recommended period of time.

This builds on our MRI/CT call for application launched in June to connect nearly 100,000 more people to MRI/CT scans at community surgical and diagnostic centres across the province each year. A third call is expected to be launched in the fall to expand access to orthopedic surgeries.

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En: Reducing Wait Times

Fr: Réduire les temps d’attente