Last year the province's median wait between referral from a family doctor and receipt of surgery was 52.6 weeks.
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June 3, 2024
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December 30, 2023
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The median wait in 2023 for an MRI was 12.9 weeks—two weeks longer than last year.
April 6, 2023
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Patients needing neurosurgery faced a typical wait of more than a year.
April 4, 2023
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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.
June 23, 2022
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The vast majority of universal health-care systems worldwide employ some form of cost-sharing.
May 21, 2022
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The inability to provide timely access to care precedes the pandemic.
April 25, 2022
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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.
November 25, 2021
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For elective surgery, 99 per cent of Germans reported waiting less than four months compared to 62 per cent of Canadians.