At 58.2 weeks, the province’s median wait time is more than double the national average.
cost of waiting for care
November 25, 2021
9:17AM
For elective surgery, 99 per cent of Germans reported waiting less than four months compared to 62 per cent of Canadians.
September 16, 2020
10:22AM
More than one million patients in Canada waited almost 20 weeks (on average) for medically necessary care last year.
July 2, 2020
11:59AM
In 2019, more than 166,000 patients in the province were waiting for treatment after seeing a specialist.
June 4, 2020
11:26AM
Wait times cost Canadians up to $1,963 for each person waiting for treatment.
May 11, 2020
11:32AM
An estimated 1,064,286 Canadians waited for medically necessary treatment in 2019.
April 23, 2020
9:44AM
Patients could expect to wait almost 21 weeks for elective treatment.
January 10, 2020
10:01AM
In 2019, Alberta spent significantly more per person on health care than any other large province.
December 30, 2019
12:56PM
In 2019, patients in Nova Scotia waited 33.3 weeks from referral by a family doctor to treatment.
