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  1. Non-COVID patients pay price for health-care backlogs

    According to the Quebec government, an estimated 140,000 patients are waiting for surgery in the province. ...

  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. Massive surgery backlog latest symptom of Ontario’s health-care problem

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, October 15, 2020 The Ford government recently announced a plan to address Ontario’s massive surgery backlog, the largest in Canada. Estimates place the backlog, which is partly due to COVID’s impact on hospital capacity, at ...

  4. McNeil government should allow private sector to help reduce surgery backlog

    Appeared in the Halifax Chronicle Herald, September 19, 2020 As uncertainty over COVID continues, no one knows when things will be “normal” again. For patients in Nova Scotia, however, a return to normalcy will mean a return to the same overburdened ...

  5. Long wait times may push Canadians abroad for medical treatment

    Donald Trump’s characterization of Canada’s health-care system as “catastrophic” may be political hyperbole, but we cannot ignore the huge problems that plague our system. ...

  6. Laggard to leader—how Saskatchewan shortened wait times

    In 2008 Saskatchewan had the dubious distinction of being the province with the longest wait times for medically necessary treatment in Canada. While the national average wait for treatment after seeing a GP was an abysmal 17.3 weeks, ...

  7. Saskatchewan and MRIs: An example of patients first, ideology second

    Appeared in the Regina Leader Post, November 17, 2015 The Government of Saskatchewan recently passed legislation that will allow patients to pay for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans using their own money. This move has, of course, caused many of ...