The province's median wait time between referral to a specialist and receipt of treatment was 43.3 weeks.
Health Care
May 19, 2023
9:38AM
The median wait between specialist visit to treatment in the province exceeded what physicians consider reasonable by more than one month.
April 27, 2023
5:30PM
Patients in the province could expect to wait 25.8 weeks (on average) between a specialist referral and receipt of treatment.
April 25, 2023
3:30AM
Dutch residents must purchase a standard insurance package from one of several private insurers.
April 6, 2023
5:26PM
Patients needing neurosurgery faced a typical wait of more than a year.
February 4, 2023
4:30AM
Canada ranked last on access to specialist visits in under four weeks.
October 28, 2022
6:00AM
Outpatient pharmaceuticals in Belgium are usually partially reimbursed through a third-party payer scheme.
September 28, 2022
2:29PM
Australian patients can choose to be treated in hospital as either a public or private patient.
August 26, 2022
10:25AM
If the provinces increased provincial spending, they’d either have to raise taxes or run larger budget deficits.
August 17, 2022
1:48PM
Government policies and regulations have created an environment hostile to research and innovation.
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