A new report predicts Ontario will have a shortfall of 33,000 nurses and personal health care aides, and be short $21.3 billion to cover health care costs in the next five years.
The province’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) released a special health care report on March 8, suggesting the province’s health spending plan “will not meet existing commitments or growing demand.”
The FAO reviewed the province’s five priority areas: hospital capacity, long-term care and home care, surgical waitlists and wait times, emergency departments, and the health care workforce. It concluded the province will have a net cumulative funding shortfall of over $23 billion in the period from 2022–23 to 2027–28….