The inability to provide timely access to care precedes the pandemic.
health-care wait times in Canada
December 16, 2021
9:39AM
In 2021, Canadians could expect to wait 25.6 weeks (on average) between referral to treatment.
October 8, 2021
3:17PM
Policymakers in Canada should learn how other countries with older populations are mitigating demographic challenges.
February 2, 2021
9:15AM
The provincial government contracted several private surgical clinics to help clear the backlog.
August 6, 2020
11:24AM
The estimated time to clear the backlog has been reduced from 24 months to 15 months.
July 2, 2020
11:59AM
In 2019, more than 166,000 patients in the province were waiting for treatment after seeing a specialist.
January 24, 2020
11:44PM
Alberta hopes to mirror Saskatchewan’s successful wait time-reduction.
September 27, 2018
3:21PM
Canadians must wait 41.7 weeks (on average) to receive medically necessary elective orthopaedic surgery.
November 27, 2017
1:54PM
Australia, Germany and the Netherlands all allow more private-sector involvement in health care than Canada.
June 7, 2017
2:23PM
Albertans wait 22.9 weeks for treatment—five weeks longer than 15 years ago.