Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck is urging Premier Scott Moe to take steps to resolve the surgical wait times in Saskatchewan, as knee and hip replacement waitlists are the longest in the country.
New data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Saskatchewan Health Authority shows that the median wait time in 2022 for hip replacements was 309 days, longer than every other province and nearly double the national average of 164 days. Knee replacement wait times were over a yearlong at 466 days, with the national average being 198 days. The next worse province is Manitoba, with a 336-day waitlist.
Beck says Moe blames the pandemic for the lengthy waitlists, but she says the CIHI data shows otherwise.
She says a year after Scott Moe took power, Saskatchewan had the worst hospital waits in Canada, and it has been that way every year since.

NDP Critic Matt Love added that, to make matters worse, there are over 1500 health care positions posted on job sites in the province currently, with only 300 of them being full-time offers. He says health care workers want to work, and it’s no wonder the province has that many vacancies when casual and part-time positions are all that are posted.