Last year the province's median wait time between referral from a family doctor and treatment was 27.7 weeks.
hospital wait list
Juillet 13, 2022
12:00PM
In 2021, the median wait in Alberta between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment was 32.1 weeks.
Août 12, 2013
2:00AM
Many Canadians and commentators in other countries lauding Canada's government-dominated approach to health care refer to Canadian health care as "free." If healthcare actually was free, the relatively poor performance of the health care system might not seem all that bad. But the reality is that the Canadian health care system is not free in fact, Canadian families pay heavily for healthcare through the tax system. That high price paints the long wait times and lack of medical technologies in Canada in a very different light.
Mars 16, 2004
2:00AM
Over the last week, roughly 90 people served by the Saskatoon health authority have been told that they will have to wait one month longer in pain and discomfort because of a budgetary shortfall. Though patients served by the Regina Health Region have been spared the cancellations, the budgetary and capacity issues there are no less real. But are the budgetary shortfalls and the resulting cancellations caused by a lack of health spending or by an inefficient use of those funds?