For elective surgery, 99 per cent of Germans reported waiting less than four months compared to 62 per cent of Canadians.
hospital wait times
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.
July 6, 2017
9:24AM
In 2016, Canadians could expect to wait 10.6 weeks for medically necessary treatment after seeing a specialist.
June 2, 2017
10:47AM
In 2016, the median wait time between referral to treatment was 20 weeks—the longest ever recorded.
April 6, 2017
3:55PM
Report finds that only three out of four Canadians receive treatment within the medically recommended wait time.