The Ontario auditor general's office published its annual report Wednesday. Here are some of the highlights:
- One in five emergency visits involved patients going to the ER for non-urgent issues because they didn't have a family doctor or access to other services.
- Between 2018-19 and 2022-23, northern hospitals increased usage of nurses from staffing agencies by 25 times – the agencies charge three times the rate of an hourly nurse – compared to an increase of about 2 1/2 times for hospitals in the rest of the province.