Ontario Waits

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Ontario wait times, October 2025: what changed

Compared with September 2025, the Ontario average wait was shorter for 4, longer for 6 and unchanged for 1 of 11 common surgeries and scans. The average time to see an ER doctor was 1 hr 54 min, 6 min shorter than in September 2025.

Surgery and scans: Ontario average

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

Surgery or scanOct 2025From Sep 2025From Oct 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 October 2025; for less common procedures it often publishes a quarter or a year instead.

Biggest drops from September 2025

Biggest increases from September 2025

  • Weight-loss surgery: 140 days in September 2025 to 158 days in October 2025, 18 days longer
  • Hip replacement: 193 days in September 2025 to 200 days in October 2025, 7 days longer
  • Hysterectomy: 245 days in September 2025 to 250 days in October 2025, 5 days longer

Shortest wait, by hospital

The hospital with the shortest average wait for each common surgery and scan, October 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 September 2025 to October 2025. Only hospitals with 10 or more patients for each wait in both months are compared.

Surgery or scanSurgery or scan, hospitalHospitalChange

From September 2025 to October 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, October 2025
1 hr 54 min
September 2025
2 hr6 min shorter now

Biggest drops from September 2025

Biggest rises from September 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 October 2025 with September 2025 and with October 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