health care waiting times

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Wait times for health care cost Albertans $600 million

An estimated 181,333 Albertans faced a median wait of 19.2 weeks between specialist consultation and treatment.


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Long health-care wait times hurt Canadians in many ways
According to the survey, an estimated 1.2 million Canadians waited for treatment last year.

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New Brunswick health-care wait times among longest in Canada

In 2020, patients in New Brunswick faced a median 41.3 week wait for medically necessary treatment.


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McNeil government should allow private sector to help reduce surgery backlog

Patients in the province waited 33.3 weeks (on average) for medically necessary treatment.


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The ‘other’ health-care crisis damaging our economy—every year

An estimated 1,064,286 Canadians waited for medically necessary treatment in 2019.


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Ontario no longer has shortest health-care wait times in Canada

Ontarians waited 29.7 weeks (on average) for orthopedic surgery this year.


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Other universal health-care countries including France, Japan and Sweden practise cost-sharing.