Health Quality Ontario

• Emergency room wait times in Ontario ballooned in July, data shows

  Data released by Health Quality Ontario shows patients waited an average of 20.7 hours to be admitted to the hospital from the emergency room in July.

  Health

  Sep 14, 2022
  
• Province instructed Ontario Health to find ‘efficiencies and savings’ as Omicron loomed

  Former minister of health Christine Elliott instructed Ontario Health, the Crown agency responsible for Ontario's health-care systems, to find 'efficiencies and savings.'

  Health

  Aug 17, 2022
  
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• Ontarians waited on average almost 2 hours to see ER doctor in April

  A new report suggests Ontario residents have waited at least 114 minutes, or one hour and 54 minutes, to be assessed by an emergency room doctor.

  Health

  Jun 16, 2022
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• Ontario government agency urges doctors to use caution when prescribing opioids

  Health Quality Ontario has issued a report tracking the number of opioid prescriptions given to patients who had not been using the powerful painkillers for at least six months.

  Health

  Jan 25, 2018
• ‘Staggering’: Ontario filled more opioid prescriptions than ever before amid overdose ‘crisis’

  In the last three years, the total number of prescriptions filled by Ontarians increased from 8.7 million to nearly 9.2 million, according to a new report.

  Canada

  May 17, 2017
• Health Quality Ontario report sheds new light on opioid prescriptions

  Despite our country's opioid crisis, more and more Ontarians are getting prescriptions for the powerful painkillers.

  Canada

  May 17, 2017
• Ontario hospital emergency department wait times shorter: report

  A report by Ontario's health quality adviser says most patients at Ontario hospital emergency wards are not having to wait as long to see a doctor.

  Health

  Nov 15, 2016
• Ontario worst place to get a quick appointment with a family doctor: report

  The agency responsible for monitoring the quality of health services says Ontario is among the worst jurisdictions when it comes to getting an appointment with a doctor.

  Canada

  Nov 10, 2015
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• Expand access to end-of-life care, says report

  Although Canada ranks relatively high on an international index measuring "quality of death," many Canadians have no access to co-ordinated end-of-life care.

  Canada

  Dec 15, 2014