Media coverage

Stay informed with ACCESS perspectives on key topics shaping surgical vision care in Canada. This section features news analysis, advocacy updates, and expert viewpoints on issues impacting patients, providers, and the healthcare system.

Improving access to cataract surgery

• Partnership with new private eye clinic to cut wait times: Vitalité – TJ News
• Private cataract clinic in New Brunswick helps address surgery backlog – CBC News
• Edmundston private clinic joins Vitalité to deliver cataract surgeries – CBC News
• More Nova Scotians receiving vision-saving cataract surgery within national benchmarks 
  – Nova Scotia Health
• Charlottetown’s new Vision Centre aims to reduce cataract wait time – SaltWire
• Health PEI CEO: New private cataract clinic could eliminate waitlists – SaltWire
• Reversal of cataract surgery ban in Newfoundland and Labrador – CBC News

Understanding wait times

• Vitalité surgeries falling short of wait time targets – CBC News
• Cataract surgery patients in Manitoba still face long waits – CBC News

The role of community surgical facilities

• Why New Brunswick should expand the use of private surgical clinics – Fraser Institute
• How private surgical clinics are improving access in New Brunswick – Fraser Institute

Debates and advocacy

While CSFs have demonstrated success, opposition continues, often led by public-sector unions such as CUPE, which represent hospital-based employees.

• Complaints raised about OHIP-covered cataract surgerys – Inside Halton
• PEI Health Coalition warns private delivery could cost taxpayers more – SaltWire

Changing perspectives

Public opinion is shifting. More Canadians are voicing support for meaningful health-care reform, including physician-owned, non-unionized facilities that can help meet growing demand.

• Rising number of Canadians support major health-care reform: survey  
  – The Globe and Mail
• The Smart Case for Private Health Care – Maclean's