Canadian Medical Association Wait Times Summary – submitted by Nanos, [MONTH, YEAR] (Submission 2014-581

Concern with wait times is high for most aspects of the health care system but highest for waiting too long to see a specialist (64.1% are concerned and 29.9% are somewhat concerned). [...] In comparison, the area of least concern is waiting to see a family physician (33.0% are concerned and 35.6% are somewhat concerned). [...] • When it comes to information sharing, 64.7% say it is important for the provincial government to share more information about how they spend money on health, and 61.3% think it is important that they are able to compare healthcare expenditures and health outcomes across Canada. [...] Net Scores That Canadians have access to the same level of healthcare 68% 24% 6%21 % regardless of where they live in Canada +85.0 Having your provincial government share more information with you on how it uses taxpayers' dollars to support better 65% 27% 6%2 1%% +83.1 healthcare services Being able to compare healthcare expenditures and health outcomes by province and across Canada to understand. [...] The results were statistically checked and weighted by age and gender using the latest Census information and the sample is geographically stratified to be representative of Canada.