Patients in the province faced a median wait of 33.3 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment.
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July 15, 2022
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Patients in the province waited 26.2 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment in 2021.
July 13, 2022
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In 2021, the median wait in Alberta between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment was 32.1 weeks.
June 23, 2022
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The vast majority of universal health-care systems worldwide employ some form of cost-sharing.
May 21, 2022
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The inability to provide timely access to care precedes the pandemic.
April 27, 2022
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Canadians could expect a median wait time of 49.2 weeks for neurosurgery.
April 25, 2022
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The province's median wait time was about three months longer than the Canadian average.
April 4, 2022
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Canada only had 2.0 acute care beds per 1,000 population, ranking 25th out of the 26 countries.
December 16, 2021
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In 2021, Canadians could expect to wait 25.6 weeks (on average) between referral to treatment.