Surgical Recovery in the Community

Today, the government is making it faster and easier for people to access the surgeries and procedures they need by better integrating and using community surgical and diagnostic centres to increase capacity and complete more publicly funded services. Increasing community capacity will target patients who have been waiting the longest amount of time for treatment and expand available options to receive safe, quality care.

Ontario has a three-step plan that will have an immediate effect on reducing waitlists to pre-pandemic levels, in addition to building capacity for the future. Services will continue to be conducted at no cost to the patient with their Ontario health card.

When it comes to your health, the status quo is no longer acceptable. The government is taking bold action to eliminate surgical backlogs and reduce wait times for publicly-funded surgeries and procedures.

Ontario has a three-step plan that better integrates and uses community surgical and diagnostic centers and their state-of-the-art facilities to speed up how quickly people are able to get surgeries and procedures using their health card, never their credit card.

By boosting the availability of publicly funded health services in Ontario, our government is ensuring Ontarians currently waiting for specialized surgeries will have greater access to the world class care they need, where they need it.

Timely access to surgery and diagnostic imaging is critical to increasing early detection for diagnoses and improving people’s prognosis and quality of life, in addition to reducing pressure on the health care system in the long-term.