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Wait Times and Patient Care Guarantees

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access to care, wait times, patient care, Emergency department, overcrowding
February 2012
Access to Care | Policy Statement
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Doctors of BC Position: Wait times continue to be an issue of significant concern in the BC health system. In order to guarantee patient care, Doctors of BC supports treating patients within established wait time benchmarks for key services and/or procedures, and this should be supported by the option to use another public or private facility if needed to meet the benchmark.

Improving Access to Acute Care Services

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access to care, acute care, beds, wait times, delays, burnout, capacity, complex care, hospital admissions, overcrowding, recruitment and retention
August 2008
Access to Care | Policy Paper
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Doctors of BC Position: Doctors of BC supports a number of recommendations on improving acute care services in BC. Efforts to improve access to acute care must focus on establishing wait time benchmarks for acute care, increasing supply of acute care beds, managing beds effectively, investing in community-based care, and improving government accountability. To better predict areas of need and to better allocate acute care resources, additional data collection and modelling is needed that is based on the realities of the practice setting and should be developed in collaboration with practicing physicians.