In Australia, governments regularly contract with private hospitals to provide surgical care.
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August 13, 2024
8:47AM
From 1993 to 2023, health-care wait times have increased by 198 per cent.
June 27, 2024
3:30AM
Wait times for non-emergency treatment in 2023 cost Canadians $3.5 billion in lost wages and productivity.
January 26, 2024
4:25PM
The province went from having some of the longest waits for surgery to some of the shortest.
December 30, 2023
7:30AM
The median wait in 2023 for an MRI was 12.9 weeks—two weeks longer than last year.
December 13, 2023
9:01AM
The median wait time between referral from a family doctor to treatment now stands at 27.7 weeks.
November 24, 2023
9:30AM
The province's wait times were 6.5 weeks longer than the national average.
May 19, 2023
9:38AM
The median wait between specialist visit to treatment in the province exceeded what physicians consider reasonable by more than one month.