Victoria, North Vancouver have highest waiting times in Canada for walk-in clinics

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Victoria, North Vancouver have highest wait times in Canada for walk-in clinics

Victoria patients waited an average 137 minutes per visit at walk-in clinics in 2022, the second-highest in the country after North Vancouver, which had an average wait of 160 minutes.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.

The company was launched in Greater Victoria in 2016 by University of Victoria graduates and founders Blake Adam and Jonathan Clark and now operates in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Nova Scotia. By comparison, patients in Nova Scotia waited an average of 83 minutes and Saskatchewan patients waited 51 minutes — the longest average wait times across Canada in 2022.Article content

As an alternative to the traditional fee-for-service model, the new scheme offers greater compensation and the ability to see patients longer, and fewer pay codes, which means less paperwork. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday his government will increase federal health-care transfers to the provinces by $196 billion over the next 10 years — about $46 billion or one-quarter of which is new.

 

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