Die Notaufnahmen der kanadischen Krankenhäuser sind an einem Bruchpunkt angelangt. Ist es die neue Normalität?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-hospitals-wait-times-9.7123684
Die Notaufnahmen der kanadischen Krankenhäuser sind an einem Bruchpunkt angelangt. Ist es die neue Normalität?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-hospitals-wait-times-9.7123684
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A breaking point at least twenty plus years in the making according to the article. Not enough family doctors, hospital staff, hospital beds, long term care beds etc.
> Canada had an average 2.5 hospital beds available per 1,000 people in 2023, according to a November 2025 report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). That’s well below the average of 4.2 beds across OECD countries. It means that Canada was ranked 28th out of the 35 counties measured that year.
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> A February report from the CMA found that 5.8 million Canadians lack access to primary care. Even those with family doctors say they don’t have enough access to them. Meanwhile, the November OECD report found that 9.1 per cent of Canadians reported they had unmet health-care needs, compared to the OECD average of 3.4 per cent.
We’ve past the breaking point.
There’s too many people in this country that have allowed this to happen by excusing the problems rather than forcing our officials to fix it.
People here are delusional as to what we have. We call it universal and they wrap themselves in a blanket of warm lies.
Idiots.
Yes
Fun fact: in 1991 the federal government adopted findings of the 1991 Barer–Stoddart Report which claimed rising healthcare costs were attributed to having too many doctors in Canada driving up healthcare costs across Canada. The recommendations adopted by most provinces reducing medical school enrollments by 10% as well as hospital residencies. The entry for internationally trained physicians was also tightened.
I like to think of it as just another gift from the boomers.
They have been at or nearing a breaking point for years. Now though, all plan b’s at hospitals have been enacted and exhausted. There are no more spare spaces to convert to patient care areas. There are no more extra staff that can be pulled in to help. All the what was once ‘flex up’ capacity has been used. Most ER’s are one major multi person trauma or incident away from utter collapse. I left healthcare to save myself. The help wasn’t coming. And I see it still hasn’t.
It’s the lack of ward beds and new hospitals for a growing and aging population.
No where to move people out of the ER and into a ward bed means a permanently above capacity and overflowing ER.
In 1980 we had 7 hospital beds per 1,000 people, today it’s 2.5 per 1,000. The problem and it’s solution is obvious.
Made an appt with my family Dr. First availability is May 11.
Lots of ppl saying it is a Canada wide problem (it is) and saying we cant recruit, what is the Gov doing to help? This is Saskatchewan and their efforts…
In Sask, there are currently 40 undergraduate medical school spots available per year through the University of Saskatchewan (USask). That’s it, I can’t even take that as serious for the shortage we are experiencing.
Over the past 10 years the total USask medical seats only grew grew from 100 in 2014 to 108 by 2024. What kind of strategy is this to solve the doctor shortage problem here? Literally starving the system of professionals while the population grows and people age.
Lastly, yes, we have „aggressive“ incentives for recruitment and retainment, some of the highest in the country, but this place sucks so it is needed and honestly probably isn’t enough. I’m not going to post the list of the incentives as it is long and nobody will read it anyway, but the whole $200k incentives is for the backwater rual areas almost explicitly.
Politicians and their policies are failing us, and what is anyone doing about it? We protest about international issues but do nothing for ourselves at home. We deserve what we get far as I’m concerned.
I see my doctor on vacation and cross my fingers I can avoid an emergency
If Conservative premiers keep pulling funds from health care then yes.
Time to tack on another 400k people because builders demand demand!
Most hospitals have been adding more admin over the last 10 years
More directors and vps
It nutz
Why do we keep electing premiers that don’t give a crap about funding healthcare properly?
Our emergency rooms have been hanging on by the thinnest of threads since the early 90s
It’s only due to absolutely heroic efforts from staff that the whole system has not collapsed