Surgical Backlogs

• OMA leader highlights London’s health-care need as hospital faces rising nursing vacancies

  LHSC has 388 active postings for registered nurses; 321 are true vacancies filling an existing position and the others are additional postings for future workplace planning.

  Health

  Apr 27, 2023
  
• How COVID continues to impact training of surgeons in Canada: ‘Not business as usual’

  A study published in 2021 found that about four out of five doctors in plastic surgery residency training programs across Canada believed the pandemic curtailed their exposure.

  Canada

  Jan 28, 2023
  
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• Health professionals say Manitoba throne speech misses mark for COVID-19, growing backlogs

  'They need to see that help is on the way. And unfortunately, today they were left waiting again.'

  Politics

  Nov 23, 2021
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• Doctors Manitoba launches dashboard tracking COVID-19 surgery, diagnostic backlogs

  Doctors Manitoba now estimates the province's list of surgery, diagnostic backlogs has grown to more than 136,000 cases.

  Health

  Nov 22, 2021