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1. Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2011 Report

   This edition of Waiting Your Turn indicates that waiting times for elective medical treatment have increased since last year. Specialist physicians surveyed across 12 specialties and 10 Canadian provinces report a total waiting time of 19.0 weeks between ...

2. Why We Wait: Physician Opinions on Factors Affecting Health Care Wait Times

   It has become fairly common knowledge that patients in Canada have to wait an inordinately long time for access to health care. The Fraser Institute report from 2010, Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, found that while physicians ...

3. Hospital Report Card: British Columbia 2011

   The Fraser Institute?s Hospital Report Card: British Columbia 2011 is constructed in order to contribute to the improvement of inpatient care in British Columbia by providing hospital-specific information about quality of service directly to patients and ...

4. Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada 2010 Report

   The Fraser Institute?s twentieth annual waiting list survey finds that province-wide wait times for surgical and other therapeutic treatments have increased in 2010. The total waiting time between referral from a general practitioner and delivery of ...

5. Fraser Forum- February 2010: The Rising Cost of Canadian Health Care

   In this issue: How to beat Africa’s health crisis by Philip Stevens The current state-centric model of delivering health care in Africa is not working. It’s time to examine other options. Key Concepts: Creative destruction by Nick Schulz Capitalism is ...