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Southwestern Ontario’s largest hospital is running the second longest emergency room waiting time for admitted patients in the region — another example of a chronic issue with no signs of getting better, critics say.

Patients admitted to hospital spent an average of 18.7 hours in the emergency room at London Health Sciences Centre’s Victoria Hospital in July, according to statistics compiled by Health Quality Ontario, the provincial agency that tracks and measures health system performance.

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The average time admitted patients spent in the emergency room at University Hospital in July was 11.6 hours, below the provincial average of 15.6 hours.

The metric includes the amount of time admitted patients spend in the emergency room waiting to be assessed by a doctor, receiving treatment and waiting for a bed to open up elsewhere in the hospital.

The longest average wait in July in Southwestern Ontario — from Windsor to Brantford, St. Thomas to Stratford — was at Brantford General Hospital where patients spent on average 22 hours in the emergency room.