Auditor General says knee and cataract surgery wait times in PEI don’t meet national targets

The auditor general says a number of Islanders aren’t receiving knee and cataract surgeries within wait times that meet national targets.  Darren Noonan’s audit also says Health PEI isn’t using national methods of measuring wait times for hip, knee and cataract surgeries.  Noonan says the Island’s median wait times, which the province doesn’t use in its figures, rose about 35 per cent between 2013 and 2022 for hip, knee and cataract surgeries.  The median wait time for knee replacement surgery was 210 days, higher than the national median of 182 days, and that for knee surgeries was 164 days, lower than the national median of 182 days.