winnipegsun.com - Manitoba - Unhealthy trend: "One of the problems is some provinces still don't keep accurate data on certain wait times. As a result, some provinces -- including Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia -- were not graded in two or three of the five priority areas.
Nevertheless, the report did manage to give out 37 of 50 possible grades. Manitoba was graded in all five areas and overall, we didn't do well.
B.C. scores three A's
By contrast, British Columbia got three A's, one C and an incomplete.
Newfoundland got four A's and an incomplete.
Ontario got an A, one B and three Cs.
Alberta got an A, B, C, D and an incomplete.
And Quebec got two A's, one B and two incompletes.
Only Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan got Fs in any category.
Meanwhile, the alliance report wasn't the only recent bad news for wait times in Manitoba.
The Fraser Institute's latest report on health care wait times shows the median wait time between seeing a specialist and receiving treatment in Manitoba has grown for the second year in a row to 10.3 weeks.
The median wait time from referral to a specialist and treatment now stands at 18 weeks in Manitoba, slightly above the national average of 17.8 weeks.
It doesn't bode well.
Measuring health-care wait times can be a dodgy game.
Wait times among surgeons in the same city can vary significantly for all kinds of reasons. Hospitals in the same jurisdiction routinely have varying wait times for procedures like MRIs and ultrasounds.
And governments sometimes just don't have good data to accurately measure certain wait times.
However, with the billions we've put into health care over the past few years, you'd think we'd see some signs of significant progress on hospital wait times. But we don"
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