CBC News - Toronto - Long-term care wait in Ontario 'too long': report

From the end of the article:

Other key findings included:

• Wait times for "low-priority" MRI scans have more than doubled since 2004, and only one-third of such scans are done within the recommended time — despite a doubling in the number of scans being done in the last six years.
• The proportion of family doctors who have an electronic medical record system has risen from 26 per cent in 2007 to 43 per cent in 2009. This lags behind countries, such as Australia and the Netherlands, where 95 to 99 per cent of family doctors have such as system.
• About 7.1 per cent of Ontarians age 18 or over — about 730,000 people — have no family doctor. About half of these people are actively looking for one.
• Almost nine in 10 Ontarians say they wait too long to see their doctor, an indicator that has gotten worse in the last three years.
• Rates of C. difficile, an infection common in hospitals, have been decreasing gradually over the past year, yet only 53 per cent of health professionals wash their hands right before seeing a patient.

This year's report also looked at other hospital infections, maternal and child health and mental health services.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/06/03/wait-times-ontario.html?ref=rss#ixzz0prC0Qerj

I'm really disappointed with the system here, honestly...too many horror stories of the system failing. I need to write to the Provincial and Federal governments honestly.