Ontario Reducing Wait Times for MRIs, CT Scans and Endoscopies

June 30, 2025

• When it comes to wait times for surgeries and procedures, the status quo is not acceptable. That’s why our government is taking bold, decisive action to protect Ontario’s health-care system by boosting access to vital surgeries and diagnostic imaging so that families can conveniently access the care they need sooner.
• This is part of our plan to protect and improve our health-care services while ensuring people always receive the care they need with their OHIP card.
• Following a Call for Applications, licenses will be issued starting this summer for:
  • 35 newly licensed centres will deliver MRI and CT scans, connecting up to 828,000 more people over two years to vital diagnostic imaging services – more than four times our government’s original.
  • 22 newly licensed centres will deliver GI endoscopy procedures, adding up to 420,000 procedures over two years – more than three times our government’s original goal.
• By licensing 57 new community surgical and diagnostic centres across Ontario, we are reducing wait times and ensuring more people can receive timely care in their community for years to come.
• As part of Your Health: A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care, our government is taking action to protect Ontario by reducing surgical and diagnostic backlogs to make it easier and faster for more people to connect to publicly funded surgeries and procedures when and where they need it.