
Saskatchewan Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill speaks during a media scrum after the Speech from the Throne in Regina, on Oct. 22, 2025. The Canadian Press/Heywood Yu
The Saskatchewan Health Authority has expanded its surgery contract with Surgical Centres Inc. in an attempt to cut wait times.
The health care provider has completed more than 16,700 publicly funded surgeries, which account for roughly 18 percent of all “core procedures” for 2024–2025, according to the provincial government.

