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Health and Medicine: Reducing Wait Times in OntarioName:Institution:Date:How Can we Reduce Hospital Wait Times in Ontario?Research QuestionCanada’s first ministers in 2004 endorsed a Ten-year plan aimed at strengthening the healthcare system. In this plan, they committed to the better management of waiting times and a reduction of waiting times that are measurable and are not longer than medically acceptable (Willcox, Seddon, Dunn, Edwards, Pearse, & Tu, 2007). The research, therefore, begs the question on the strategies that are applicable in reducing the wait times in Ontario. This question is vital as it provides insight on strategies that can reduce the waiting times and hence promote the achievement of the ten-year plan implemented in the country.The search words used to obtain the relevant resources included reducing hospital times in Ontario, strategies to reduce wait times in Ontario, and approaches for reducing wait time.The article “Reducing Wait Times for Health Care†is both a theoretical and an empirical paper edited by Globerman hi...