I read the interviews regarding wait times in the Canadian health care system1 with great
interest, but also with a sense of dis appointment. For all the proposals made by the …

IN 2007, THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES (CCPA) published Why
Wait? Public Solutions to Cure Surgical Waitlists. The report examined innovative public …

Waiting for elective surgery is the hottest political issue facing canadian health care today. in
fact, it's no exaggeration to say that how waitlists are managed–or not–could seal the fate of …

Effective communications also helps to explain the success of the most controversial aspect
of the SSI, the use of private, for-profit clinics to deliver day-surgery procedures. Healthcare …

A significant barrier to accessing healthcare in Canada is long waiting lists, which can be
linked to the way that Medicare was structured. After significant pressure, provincial …

Introduction Ontario's Wait Time Strategy (Strategy)–launched in November 2004–is
designed to improve access to healthcare services in the public system by reducing the time …

The Commonwealth Fund 2017 report ranked Canada's healthcare system low in access to
care and last among all 11 counties studied in terms of timeliness of care. While long wait …

This study aimed to describe approaches used in Canada and internationally, targeting wait
times from the decision to treat to surgery (wait time 2). Access to optimal care at the right …

Variations in Surgical Trends The objective of the CIHI study was to provide a first look at the
overall picture of surgical volumes within and outside of priority areas, but there may be …

Objectives. Polls show that nearly two thirds of Canadians believe that waiting times prior to
surgery have increased in recent years. A study was undertaken in Manitoba to determine …