Waiting Time Care Guarantees: Necessity or Nemesis?

SAGE Publications - Tập 19 Số 2 - Trang 35-39 - 2006
N.P. N.P., F.T. F.T., T.W. T.W.

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One of the priorities of governments in Canada is to reduce long waiting times for health services. This has raised the prospect of introducing waiting time care guarantees. Such guarantees affirm the healthcare system's social contract with the public and provide an entitlement to Canadians to receive timely care. There are clinical, legal and political implications, which must be considered and well managed before introduction. Other countries have ventured down this path. They teach us that waiting time care guarantees are good policy and make good sense. Correspondingly, they remind us not to make a promise we are not ready to keep.

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