Promise History
2.12.12 - “[W]e will cut our excessive wait lists in half by March 2021 […] by piloting virtual technologies and tele-medicine for pre and post operative assessments [of hip and knee replacement surgeries].”
18-Jun-2024
Wait times for hip and knee replacements still remain similar to summer 2020.
Surgical Wait Time in New Brunswick
23-Jan-2023
Wait times for hip and knee replacements have remained similar since summer 2020.
Surgical Wait Times
02-Jun-2021
“The provincial government has reduced the number of people waiting longer than a year for hip and knee replacements by over 50 per cent, between December 2020 and April 30, 2021. […] From December 2020 to April 2021, the number of people on a waiting list decreased from 747 to 346. As part of a pilot project in Saint John, over 450 hip and knee replacement surgeries have been completed at St. Joseph’s Hospital since Oct. 13, 2020.”
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