The province's health-care wait times are longer than the national average.
healthcare performance
The province's median wait between referral and receipt of treatment was 33.5 weeks.
The median wait time between referral from a family doctor to treatment now stands at 27.7 weeks.
Australia, Switzerland and Germany all deliver more timely universal care with comparable levels of spending to Canada.
Wait times in the province more than doubled from 10.4 weeks in 1993 to 25.8 weeks in 2022.
Last year, the median wait time between referral to treatment in Nova Scotia was 58.2 weeks, dwarfing the national average.
Canada ranked 28th out of 30 universal health-care countries with 2.8 physicians per 1,000 people.
According to estimates, Ontarians were waiting for 369,402 procedures in 2022.
Canada ranked dead last on timely access to specialists and surgical care.