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Dear John,
Private clinics were a key component in the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative (SSI), which reduced waiting times by 47% between 2010 and 2014.
The Saskatchewan government launched the SSI to tackle medical wait times for non-emergency but necessary surgical procedures, and used private clinics to perform publicly funded surgeries.
The study finds that from 2010 to 2014, the median wait time from when a patient is referred by their family doctor to a specialist to when treatment was completed fell by 47% to 14.2 weeks.
Adopting an enhanced and bolder version of the SSI would give more timely access to care for patients with better value provided for taxpayer money.
Learn more here, and be sure to help us spread this news far and wide.
Sincerely,
Niels Veldhuis
President
The Fraser Institute
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