Ontario Waits

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Ontario wait times, November 2025: what changed

Compared with October 2025, the Ontario average wait was shorter for 5, longer for 5 and unchanged for 1 of 11 common surgeries and scans. The average time to see an ER doctor was 1 hr 48 min, 6 min shorter than in October 2025.

Surgery and scans: Ontario average

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

Surgery or scanNov 2025From Oct 2025From Nov 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 November 2025; for less common procedures it often publishes a quarter or a year instead.

Biggest drops from October 2025

  • Hip replacement: 200 days in October 2025 to 192 days in November 2025, 8 days shorter
  • Hysterectomy: 250 days in October 2025 to 244 days in November 2025, 6 days shorter
  • Gallbladder removal: 116 days in October 2025 to 112 days in November 2025, 4 days shorter

Biggest increases from October 2025

Shortest wait, by hospital

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

Surgery or scanSurgery or scan, hospitalHospitalChange

From October 2025 to November 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, November 2025
1 hr 48 min
October 2025
1 hr 54 min6 min shorter now

Biggest drops from October 2025

Biggest rises from October 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 November 2025 with October 2025 and with November 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