Wait List

• Alberta family loses son to suicide while he waited for mental health care

  An Alberta family feels their loved one became a casualty of a broken mental health care system. They lost their son to suicide while he waited for psychiatric help.

  Health

  Feb 9, 2023
  
• Saint John, N.B. adds nursing home; more beds still needed

  One advocacy group estimated that there are nearly 500 people in a hospital in New Brunswick who are on a waiting list for a bed in a long-term care home.

  Canada

  Jan 16, 2023
  
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• N.B. primary care wait-list grows by 1,000 following resignations

  Horizon Health Network confirmed two nurse practitioners resigned from their positions in Saint John, N.B.

  Health

  Nov 4, 2022
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• Quebec reaches deal with family doctors to improve access to basic care

  The deal will allow patients signed up with a family doctor to have access to that doctor or another one from the doctor’s group within 36 to 72 hours, depending on their needs.

  Health

  May 3, 2022
• Opposition Tories release $127-million plan to bolster Nova Scotia health system

  The plan includes $31 million to help anyone without a family doctor access care and to open hospital operating rooms seven days a week, to clear the province's surgery backlog.

  Health

  Feb 10, 2021
• ‘The pain is incredible’: Okanagan man, 50, desperate for hip-replacement surgery

  "All they want to do is push prescription drugs on me, take this, take that. I refuse to; just fix what is broken," says Jamie Angus. 

  Health

  Jan 7, 2021
• ‘I feel like they just don’t care’: The people waiting for mental health support in Atlantic Canada

  Those suffering with mental illness have told Global News of year-long waitlists and being discharged from hospital even as they begged for help.

  Health

  Apr 15, 2019
• Nova Scotia couple says doctors shouldn’t refuse patients

  "I was kind of stunned," said Andrew Hopper. "Like it was surprising they have the option of refusing you."

  Health

  Jan 29, 2019
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• Life on the wait list: Health care in New Brunswick ‘going very well’ says minister

  Statistics Canada estimates that more than nine per cent of New Brunswick's population is without a family doctor.

  Canada

  Jun 26, 2018
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• N.S. Health Authority aims to adopt AG recommendations, reduce surgery wait times

  Despite lagging behind on completing recommendations from the auditor general’s 2014-2015 report, the Nova Scotia Health Authority is expecting to make substantial progress on reducing orthopedic surgery wait times.

  Health

  Apr 5, 2018