Latest posts by Tracey Tremayne-Lloyd (see all)
- Self-funding medical residencies will benefit all Canadians - January 12, 2023
- Nurse practitioners: the remedy to Canada’s doctor shortage - July 26, 2022
- It is time for Canada to go ‘Dutch’ on health care - June 28, 2022
Alberta is on the right track with a bill that should make it easier for private surgical clinics to be established, setting the precedent for other provinces.
Across Canada, people are stuck on waitlists for two years or more for medically necessary operations. I am not talking about cosmetic surgery, but instead procedures such as cataracts and knee replacements, the latter operation being one that low-priority patients in Ontario wait up to 195 days to receive, according to an estimate from Health Quality Ontario. To read more, click here.
