Patients in the province faced a median wait of 33.3 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment.
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January 23, 2023
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Patients in the province faced a median wait of 20.3 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment in 2022.
January 18, 2023
9:03AM
Patients in the province faced a median wait of 33.3 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment.
December 19, 2022
10:13AM
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 25, 2022
9:31AM
The province's median wait time was about three months longer than the Canadian average.
April 4, 2022
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Canada only had 2.0 acute care beds per 1,000 population, ranking 25th out of the 26 countries.
April 16, 2021
9:29AM
According to the survey, an estimated 1.2 million Canadians waited for treatment last year.
February 2, 2021
9:15AM
The provincial government contracted several private surgical clinics to help clear the backlog.