Canada ranked second-last for acute care beds with 2.1 beds per thousand people.
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September 27, 2018
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Canadians must wait 41.7 weeks (on average) to receive medically necessary elective orthopaedic surgery.
August 31, 2018
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Survey says seven in 10 Canadians are ready for virtual doctor appointments.
August 29, 2018
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Ontario’s population may grow by 30 per cent, from 14.2 to 18.5 million.
August 16, 2018
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Hospitals in Switzerland compete with one another for patients.
April 12, 2018
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Last year in B.C., the average wait time between referral to treatment was 26.6 weeks.
March 1, 2018
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In most countries with universal health care, patients share the cost of treatment—surgical or pharmaceutical.
February 27, 2018
10:56AM
The province will spend nearly $22 billion on health care in 2018/19.
February 7, 2018
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Unlike Canadians, Germans do not face long wait times for health care.