An estimated 181,333 Albertans faced a median wait of 19.2 weeks between specialist consultation and treatment.
health care wait times
At 58.2 weeks, the province’s median wait time is more than double the national average.
According to the court, we must have equal distribution of medical resources, even if that prevents you from obtaining private care that would save your life.
Countries with shorter wait times do universal health care differently than Canada.
Patients needing neurosurgery faced a typical wait of more than a year.
This year’s median wait is almost three times longer than the wait recorded in the first national survey in 1993.
Canada ranked last on the timeliness of both specialist and elective surgical care.
In 2021, the median wait in Alberta between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment was 32.1 weeks.
Canadians could expect a median wait time of 49.2 weeks for neurosurgery.