Emergency departments across Canada are under strain, facing rising patient volumes, staff shortages, and increasing pressure ...

Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2024.” “Long wait times can result in increased suffering for patients, lost productivity at work, a decreased quality of life, and in the worst cases ...

"Canadian health care, folks. Best in the world ... (around 56 PET scanners compared to the 2,370 in the U.S.) Wait times so ...

The average wait time for Canadian patients between seeing a specialist and receiving treatment was a staggering 15 weeks. Defenders of the status quo often argue that Canada’s health-care ...

Nearly five years after COVID-19 first struck, emergency departments across the country remain bogged down by lengthy waiting times ... Canadian jurisdictions, New Brunswick lost health care ...

OTTAWA, Ontario, Jan. 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Canadian Dermatology Association ... Canadians are experiencing significant wait times for care, an average of at least five months, and ...

"Our results provide strong support for the implementation of both single-entry referral models and team-based care as a regional solution to the problem of long wait times for scheduled surgery in ...

The fact that people in these other universal-care countries do less waiting suggests that, although long wait times remain a staple of Canadian health care, they are not a necessary trade-off for ...

Background: Long wait times for scheduled surgery are a major problem in Canadian health systems. We sought to determine the extent to which single-entry referral models (next available consultation), ...

An Axios report on Tuesday found Americans are struggling with health care “shrinkflation,” experiencing longer wait times and shorter doctor visits despite paying more for health coverage.

Median wait times from referral to care are three times longer than in 1993. In New Brunswick and P.E.I. they're more than one year. (Credit: Stephen MacGillivray/The Daily Gleaner files) Just when ...