In Australia, more than 70 per cent of elective hospital admissions involving surgery occurred in a private hospital.
Health Care
March 19, 2024
3:00AM
New Brunswickers who required medically-necessary surgeries endured a median wait for treatment of 52.6 weeks.
February 7, 2024
10:30AM
Countries such as Switzerland, Germany and Australia either partner with their private sector or use it as a pressure-valve for the public system.
January 26, 2024
4:25PM
The province went from having some of the longest waits for surgery to some of the shortest.
January 25, 2024
12:32PM
Other countries include the private sector as a partner in the universal health-care framework.
January 12, 2024
1:57PM
The province's average wait time for health care grew from 18.5 weeks in 2008 to 33.5 weeks in 2023.
December 11, 2023
8:47AM
Among universal health-care countries, Canada ranks poorly on several key indictors including number of hospital beds.
November 5, 2023
5:30AM
Canadians can expect to wait nearly six months from general practitioner referral to treatment by a psychiatrist.
November 4, 2023
5:30AM
Canadians may experience more limited access to new drugs and poorer health-care outcomes.
October 31, 2023
11:51AM
Wait times in the province more than doubled from 10.4 weeks in 1993 to 25.8 weeks in 2022.
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