waiting for health care

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Private surgical clinic making life better for New Brunswickers

The province's median wait time between referral to a specialist and receipt of treatment was 43.3 weeks.


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B.C.’s cross-border cancer care initiative—necessary, bold and hypocritical

The median wait between specialist visit to treatment in the province exceeded what physicians consider reasonable by more than one month.


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Health-care wait times cost Canadians billions of dollars

Countries with shorter wait times do universal health care differently than Canada.


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Courts deal another blow to B.C. patients waiting for health care

Patients in the province could expect to wait 25.8 weeks (on average) between a specialist referral and receipt of treatment.


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Despite high spending, Alberta’s health-care system is failing

Patients in the province faced a median wait of 33.3 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment.


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More private clinics will help Ontario—but province needs fundamental health-care reform

Patients in the province faced a median wait of 20.3 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment in 2022.


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Alberta needs fundamental reform to tackle health-care wait times

Patients in the province faced a median wait of 33.3 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment.


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Canada’s health-care wait times hit record high of 27.4 weeks

This year’s median wait is almost three times longer than the wait recorded in the first national survey in 1993.