Most New Brunswick patients waiting a year or longer for hip or knee replacements received their surgeries in the last 15 months.
According to a news release from Horizon Health Network, there were roughly 700 patients in need of hip or knee replacement surgery who had been on a waitlist for more than a year as of December 2022.
In the 2023-2024 fiscal year, the province saw 2,917 hip and knee replacements, which represented an increase of more than 700 surgeries from the previous year.
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“The fact that we have been able to clear the waitlist for individuals who had been waiting more than a year for their procedure shows our commitment to improving access to surgical services for patients,” said Greg Doiron, Horizon’s vice-president clinical, in the release. “We recognize there is still more work to be done as we strive to bring wait times for other surgeries closer to national benchmarks.”
