8 AT 12:01 AM New Wait Time Alliance Report Card reveals important lessons for next Health Accord Ottawa (December 8, 2015) — The Wait Time Alliance’s (WTA) tenth national report card shows that, despite encouraging signs that wait times for the initial five areas identified in the 2004 Health Accord are being reduced, progress to reduce waits for care other medical procedures and treatments is sp. [...] “The WTA report card shows that Canadians need action to reduce waits beyond the initial five areas identified in the 2004 Health Accord.” As in previous years, the 2015 WTA report card found that Canadians are still waiting too long for care and that significant variation exists among some provinces; timely access is often still affected by where you live, and often, how old you are. [...] PEI and BC are the latest to do so in approximate real time – updated every five minutes; On the primary care front – PEI now reports on wait time to access a family physician – the first province to do so; New in 2015, the report card draws special attention to the issue of timely access to care for elderly Canadians and also looks at wait times for those populations falling under federal jur. [...] “Shortages in these areas all too often lead to more people, particularly seniors, spending more time in hospital when they could and should be getting care elsewhere.” The WTA report cited the current lack of suitable living arrangements for seniors, such as supportive residential care models and long-term care beds, as having a huge impact on our 1867, prom. [...] The Wait Time Alliance (WTA) is a partnership comprised of the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society, the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians, the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology, the Canadian Association of General Surgeons, the Canadian Association of Nuclear Medicine, the Canadian Association of Paediatric Surgeons, the Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology, the Canadian As.
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