In British Columbia, more than 400,000 hospital-based surgeries and treatments are performed each year. If you need surgery or treatment that is not an emergency, you will be placed on a wait list. An individual who needs emergency surgery does not go on a waitlist; they receive treatment without delay.

Before considering any changes to your treatment, it is important to discuss any information from this website with your doctor or specialist.

To see wait times for a specific procedure, please select from the Contents or the diagram below. Provincial totals can be found here.

Disclaimer: About Wait Times Data

Information in the Surgical Wait List Registry comes directly from participating hospitals. The accuracy and currency of the registry is entirely dependent on the data hospitals submit. The Ministry of Health assumes no liability for the hospital information.

Last Revised: October 17, 2006