Nova Scotia still lagging in surgery wait times
To no one’s real surprise, NS still has the longest wait times in Canada for knee and hip replacement surgery. Compared to Ontario’s 90-93% rate, we rank 47-51% for providing surgery within the 6 month benchmark established by the Federal government when they doled out 5.5 billion dollars to the provinces to improve wait times for the most commonly required surgical procedures, such as hip and knee replacement, cataract removal, heart surgery, and radiation oncology.
Good job, NS. We’re not even a close second to Saskatchewan (48-63%) and Manitoba (58-62%), two other Canadian wastelands. So while other provinces showed a marked improvement in wait times for hip and knee replacement surgeries, what did NS do with its share of the funding? Mismanaged it into oblivion, of course. And now that the funding is set to end by 2013, we can only assume that things will get even worse.
If that’s possible.