Last year the province's median wait time between referral from a family doctor and treatment was 27.7 weeks.
waiting list
November 24, 2023
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The province's wait times were 6.5 weeks longer than the national average.
May 5, 2021
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The elective surgery queue cost 1.2 million Canadians a total of $2.8 billion in lost wages and productivity.
April 17, 2014
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The 2004 federal-provincial health accord recently completed its 10-year run, and expired on schedule. Though heralded at the time of its signing as a landmark agreement that would solve many of the wait times issues plaguing Canada's healthcare system, in retrospect it achieved very little and was very expensive to boot.