This year’s median wait is almost three times longer than the wait recorded in the first national survey in 1993.
hospital wait times
July 13, 2022
12:00PM
In 2021, the median wait in Alberta between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment was 32.1 weeks.
April 27, 2022
9:55AM
Canadians could expect a median wait time of 49.2 weeks for neurosurgery.
December 16, 2021
9:39AM
In 2021, Canadians could expect to wait 25.6 weeks (on average) between referral to treatment.
November 25, 2021
9:17AM
For elective surgery, 99 per cent of Germans reported waiting less than four months compared to 62 per cent of Canadians.
May 5, 2021
10:07AM
The elective surgery queue cost 1.2 million Canadians a total of $2.8 billion in lost wages and productivity.
April 23, 2020
9:44AM
Patients could expect to wait almost 21 weeks for elective treatment.