Ontario Waits

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Ontario wait times, September 2025: what changed

Compared with August 2025, the Ontario average wait was shorter for 3, longer for 7 and unchanged for 1 of 11 common surgeries and scans. The average time to see an ER doctor was 2 hr, 6 min longer than in August 2025.

Surgery and scans: Ontario average

Average days waited by non-urgent patients across Ontario, September 2025, against August 2025 and September 2024. For surgery, days to see the surgeon plus days to surgery.

Surgery or scanSep 2025From Aug 2025From Sep 2024

Not in this report: Thyroid surgery, Kidney stone removal and Prostate cancer surgery. Ontario Health has no one-month Ontario figure for them for September 2025; for less common procedures it often publishes a quarter or a year instead.

Biggest drops from August 2025

  • Hip replacement: 201 days in August 2025 to 193 days in September 2025, 8 days shorter
  • Knee replacement: 216 days in August 2025 to 208 days in September 2025, 8 days shorter
  • Shoulder surgery: 200 days in August 2025 to 197 days in September 2025, 3 days shorter

Biggest increases from August 2025

  • Groin hernia repair: 149 days in August 2025 to 163 days in September 2025, 14 days longer
  • Gallbladder removal: 107 days in August 2025 to 118 days in September 2025, 11 days longer
  • Hysterectomy: 236 days in August 2025 to 245 days in September 2025, 9 days longer

Shortest wait, by hospital

The hospital with the shortest average wait for each common surgery and scan, September 2025. Only hospitals with 10 or more patients for each wait that month. Children’s hospitals are not included.

Biggest improvement, by hospital

For each common surgery and scan, the hospital whose average wait dropped the most from August 2025 to September 2025. Only hospitals with 10 or more patients for each wait in both months are compared.

Surgery or scanSurgery or scan, hospitalHospitalChange

From August 2025 to September 2025. Hospitals tied for the biggest drop are each listed.

Emergency rooms

Average time from triage or registration to first seeing a doctor, all patients.

Ontario, September 2025
2 hr
August 2025
1 hr 54 min6 min longer now

Biggest drops from August 2025

Biggest rises from August 2025

Of 159 emergency departments with a figure in both months. Ontario Health publishes these to the nearest tenth of an hour (6 minutes). Every Ontario ER

Source and method

All figures are from Ontario Health’s public reporting, as published with its August 2026 data. This report compares September 2025 with August 2025 and with September 2024. Surgery and scan figures are the average days waited by non-urgent (priority 4) adult patients whose wait ended that month, rounded to whole days; for surgery, days to see the surgeon plus days to surgery. Only one-month figures are compared, never a quarter or a year. A hospital is counted only with 10 or more patients for each wait in the month, and in both months for a change. Emergency room figures are the average time from triage or registration to first assessment by a doctor, for all patients. Ontario Health can revise earlier months. Nothing here says why a wait changed. How these numbers work