Health Minister says Canadian Surgery Solutions has been contracted to provide 3,000 publicly-funded joint procedures per year through a deal with AHS
have argued that contracting to independent surgical centres will take resources away from the public system and elsewhere, and have warned of extra-billing or upselling.
“The wait times are far too long, and we have to get them down,” Mr. Copping said. “That means we need to fund more surgeries, and what we need to do is use all the tools at our disposal to make this happen. We need to add ORs at hospitals and contract chartered surgical facilities to add this capacity.”
David Shepherd, the Opposition NDP’s health critic, called it a “privatization scheme” in a statement Monday, arguing that the government should instead focus on building capacity within the public system.
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