In Australia, governments regularly contract with private hospitals to provide surgical care.
hospital wait times
July 30, 2024
3:30AM
Last year the province's median wait time between referral from a family doctor and treatment was 27.7 weeks.
November 24, 2023
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The province's wait times were 6.5 weeks longer than the national average.
September 26, 2023
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Patients in Canada faced a median wait of 27.4 weeks for medically necessary treatment.
December 19, 2022
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This year’s median wait is almost three times longer than the wait recorded in the first national survey in 1993.
July 13, 2022
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In 2021, the median wait in Alberta between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment was 32.1 weeks.
April 27, 2022
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Canadians could expect a median wait time of 49.2 weeks for neurosurgery.
December 16, 2021
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In 2021, Canadians could expect to wait 25.6 weeks (on average) between referral to treatment.