Patients needing neurosurgery faced a typical wait of more than a year.
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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.
In 2021, the median wait in Alberta between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment was 32.1 weeks.
The province's median wait time was about three months longer than the Canadian average.
Canada only had 2.0 acute care beds per 1,000 population, ranking 25th out of the 26 countries.