Wait times for Canadians at walk-in medical clinics rose by nearly 50 percent in 2022 compared to the previous year, providing yet another symptom of the crisis in health care.
The recently released Medimap Walk-in Clinic Wait Time Index shows that Canadians had to wait 37 minutes on average to see a doctor last year, a 12-minute increase from the year before, when the average wait was 25 minutes.
Medimap operates in six provinces—British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Nova Scotia—and the company says approximately 70 percent of walk-in clinics across Canada use its software to share their wait times. It uses this data to publish wait times online, allowing people who need a doctor to find out where the wait is shortest in their area….