Search

Search results

1. Wait times—the other health-care crisis

   The elective surgery queue cost 1.2 million Canadians a total of $2.8 billion in lost wages and productivity. ...

2. B.C. makes progress on surgery backlog—but serious challenges remain

   The pandemic has impacted British Columbia’s health-care system in many ways. Like many provincial governments, the Horgan government postponed surgeries—specifically, more than 30,000 “ non-urgent ” scheduled surgeries between March 16 ...

3. Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2020 Report

   Waiting for treatment has become a defining characteristic of Canadian health care. In order to document the queues for visits to specialists and for diagnostic and surgical procedures in the country, the Fraser Institute has—for over two decades—surveyed ...

4. Kenney government postpones reforms despite COVID-related surgery backlog

   Appeared in the Edmonton Journal, June 18, 2020 Despite encouraging evidence from other jurisdictions, the Kenney government recently postponed its plan to expand the use of private medical clinics to perform publicly-funded surgeries. The plan mirrors a ...

5. Policymakers should consider health-care reform in post-COVID world

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, April 22, 2020 The COVID-19 crisis has led many provinces to take drastic measures to both limit the spread of the virus and ensure scarce medical resources are available, including cancelling thousands of elective ...

6. COVID creating a backlog of cancelled elective surgeries in Canada

   COVID creating a backlog of cancelled elective surgeries in Canada ...

7. COVID creating a backlog of cancelled elective surgeries in Canada

   The COVID-19 crisis has led many provinces to take drastic measures to both limit the spread of virus and ensure scarce medical resources are available in the event of a surge in cases. One of these measures involves the cancellation of ...