hospital wait times

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More money won’t solve B.C.’s health-care crisis

Last year the province's median wait time between referral from a family doctor and treatment was 27.7 weeks.


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Hospital remuneration—the key to health-care reform

Patients in Canada faced a median wait of 27.4 weeks for medically necessary treatment.


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Canada’s health-care wait times hit record high of 27.4 weeks

This year’s median wait is almost three times longer than the wait recorded in the first national survey in 1993.


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Alberta takes another step towards reducing health-care wait times

In 2021, the median wait in Alberta between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment was 32.1 weeks.


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Long wait times for health care predated pandemic

Canadians could expect a median wait time of 49.2 weeks for neurosurgery.


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COVID exacerbates—not creates—Canada’s long health-care wait times

In 2021, Canadians could expect to wait 25.6 weeks (on average) between referral to treatment.