The province's median wait time between referral to a specialist and receipt of treatment was 43.3 weeks.
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The median wait between specialist visit to treatment in the province exceeded what physicians consider reasonable by more than one month.
Countries with shorter wait times do universal health care differently than Canada.
Patients in the province could expect to wait 25.8 weeks (on average) between a specialist referral and receipt of treatment.
Patients needing neurosurgery faced a typical wait of more than a year.
Patients in the province faced a median wait of 33.3 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment.
Patients in the province faced a median wait of 20.3 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment in 2022.
Patients in the province faced a median wait of 33.3 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment.
This year’s median wait is almost three times longer than the wait recorded in the first national survey in 1993.