12:42pm, March 10, 2011

The plan is to have all patients in Saskatchewan receiving surgery within 3 months by 2014.

That's part of the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative.

In order to meet that objective the Parkland Health Region has set a target number for surgeries.

Officials are hoping to go from a base of almost 52 hundred surgeries now to almost 61 hundred in the next 3 to 4 years.

In order to do that, the Region will be focusing on the surgical stream, from the time a patient walks into their family physician to discharge and after surgery care planning.