Wait times Currently, MRI wait time trends are hard to figure out. Because there has been no consistent record-keeping, requests for data are met with several caveats.
Looking at raw numbers, waits in 2014 were anywhere from within 24 hours for a Level 1 priority patient, to 287 days for a Level 4 patient.
Current wait times also differ markedly between health regions - bad news if you're in Saskatoon, where for the past few years, average waits for all but Level 1 patients have been longer than in Regina.
In 2014, for example, patients waited 10 days for a Level 2 scan in the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region, compared with 19 days in the Saskatoon Health Region. Level 3 waits were 58 days in Regina and 86 in Saskatoon, and Level 4 waits were 96 and 120 days respectively.
Duncan admits part of that might come down to overuse of diagnostic imaging - something the Saskatchewan Medical Association and government are working on.