Canadian Healthcare Wait Times

Wait Times for Health Care in Canada 2019 Report from the Fraser Institute.

Canadian healthcare wait times. A link button or video is not working. There is also a great deal of variation among specialties. Information is outdated or wrong.

From the time it takes to receive a referral by a GP to receiving treatment Canadians wait an average of 212 weeks to receive treatment from a specialist. Those long wait times were more than just a. MRI procedures could take up to 108 weeks.

Canadians wait longer in hospital emergency departments than people in other countries with publicly funded health-care systems according to a new report. For urgent procedures such as hip fracture repair and radiation therapy most Canadians continue to receive care within benchmark time frames. The primary responsibility for the administration and delivery of health care in Canada rests with provincial and territorial governments.

In particular we take pride in the principle that care should be provided on the basis of need. It has a spelling mistake. This week we talk to Christopher Hayes the chief medical information officer at an academic and research health care organization in Canada.

A new analysis from the Canadian Institute for Health Information CIHI shows wait times for hip and knee replacements and also cataract surgeries have increased across Canada since 2015. Thats an all-time record. Access reports on wait times by the Canadian Institute for Health Information.

Data is derived from Waiting Your Turn. The Canadian Institute for Health Information as well as the Commonwealth Fund have documented Canadas below average performance on wait times. But how long do people really have to wait to get care.