Last year, Canadians could expect to wait 14.8 weeks (on average) to receive treatment after seeing a specialist.
. Patients, their families and caregivers may also experience anxiety and stress while waiting for treatment.
And crucially, neither of these estimates include the average 12.6 weeks patients waited to see a specialist last year — the cost estimates only apply to the wait between specialist appointment and treatment. In 2020, the Commonwealth Fund found that Canadians were the least likely to report a wait of less than four weeks for a specialist appointment when compared to nine other universal healthcare systems. And only 62% of patients in Canada reported waiting less than four months for non-emergency surgery, a much smaller percentage than in France , Switzerland and Germany .Article content
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