Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cardiac Surgery, Ct Scan, Physical Therapy
20 Feb 2018
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Lecture 3 wait times for health care. Outline: objectives, poll, defining the issue, impact of the problem, possible solutions & evaluation. The issue: the amount of time canadians wait for health care has steadily increased over the last few decades, and canadians are now waiting longer than ever to receive medically necessary health care. Canadian report the longest wait times across 11 developed countries (e. g. australia, France, germany, netherlands, new zealand, norway, sweden, switzerland, uk, and us) While the international average is at 36% where they wait longer to see specialists, in. Canada, 56% of patients wait longer than a month to see a specialist: significant difference when comparing to the average. In 2016, wait times for medically necessary treatment has increased from 18. 3 weeks in. 2015, to 20 weeks (from gp referral to specialist treatment) From gp referral consultation: 9. 4 weeks: there has been an increase of 8. 5 weeks in 2015, 155% higher than the wait was in 1993.
