These are the private surgical procedures ACCESS Surgical Network coordinates, across six specialties. Every one is performed by a Royal College certified surgeon at an accredited private facility, matched to your specific condition. You do not need a referral to start, and you will never be booked for anything before you have seen the full cost in writing.
That distinction matters more than it sounds. Your surgeon performs the operation. The accredited facility provides the operating room. ACCESS is the part that makes the whole thing happen, and the part that answers the phone.
One coordinator handles your imaging, your consultation, your surgical date, your travel, your accommodation and your follow-up back home. You get one written, all-inclusive quote before anything is booked, with the exclusions named rather than buried. Canada's rules on private surgery differ from province to province, and the right of a patient to travel within their own country for care is well established. ACCESS works entirely within that framework. There is nothing to hide and nothing to work around.
We serve patients in all ten provinces and all three territories, along with uninsured and international patients. Our facilities sit in Ontario and Quebec. Our patients do not.
And if surgery is not the right answer for you, we will tell you so honestly. Every procedure page on this site says plainly when waiting, physiotherapy or doing nothing is the better call. That is not a marketing position. It is the only way this works.
See Exactly How It Works
Six specialties, each with a sub-specialist surgeon rather than a generalist. Find your procedure, or tell us your symptoms and we will find it for you.
The longest waits in Canadian medicine sit here. Joint replacement, sports injuries and the decisions patients are rarely told they are making, explained honestly.
Nerve pain, sciatica and a walking distance that keeps shrinking. Spine surgery is where honest advice matters most, because many people are better off without it.
View SpecialtyThe everyday operations that quietly take over a life while you wait for one. Hernias, gallbladders and the conditions people are too embarrassed to talk about.
View SpecialtyThe small operations that decide whether you can button a shirt, grip a wheel or sleep through the night. Nerve release, tendon and contracture surgery, most of it done in minutes.
View SpecialtyBreathing you have stopped noticing you fight for, sinus infections that never fully clear and throats that flare year after year. Nose, sinus and throat surgery by an ENT specialist.
View SpecialtyThe joints that carry your whole weight, and the ones public queues leave until last. Bunion correction, ankle replacement and tendon repair by a fellowship-trained foot and ankle surgeon.
View SpecialtyCanadians are not short of good surgeons. They are short of access to them. The gap between being told you need an operation and receiving it is where lives quietly get smaller.
The median wait in Canada from family doctor referral to treatment, across all specialties surveyed.*
Orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery carry the two longest waits of any specialty in Canadian medicine.*
Consultation within days, and surgery typically scheduled within weeks of it rather than seasons later.
*Fraser Institute, Waiting Your Turn 2025, a survey of Canadian physicians. The national median reported wait from GP referral to treatment was 28.6 weeks. By specialty, the longest waits were neurosurgery at 49.9 weeks and orthopedic surgery at 48.6 weeks. Patients also waited a median of 18.1 weeks for an MRI. Waits vary widely by province and procedure. Individual ACCESS timelines depend on the procedure, your medical readiness and surgeon availability.
Almost nobody arrives here because they want to pay for surgery. They arrive because waiting has started to cost them more than the surgery would. That is the real reason people look into private surgery in Canada.
A hip that has stopped you working. A hernia that has stopped you lifting your child. A disc pressing on a nerve that has stopped you sleeping. Waiting is not a neutral act, and for some conditions it actively narrows your options.
Consultations within days and surgery often within weeks, so a treatable condition stops becoming a permanent one.
Royal College certified surgeons whose practice is your specific condition, rather than whoever is next on a list.
Surgeon, anesthesia, facility and coordination in a single written figure, agreed before anything is booked.
Wherever you live in Canada, we arrange travel, accommodation and follow-up care close to home.
From your first message to your recovery at home, one coordinator manages the entire journey.
Tell us what is wrong and share any imaging or reports you have. No referral is required to begin.
Meet the right sub-specialist by secure video, typically within days, and get a straight answer.
We schedule your procedure at an accredited facility and coordinate travel and every other detail.
Follow-up and rehabilitation are arranged near you, with your surgical team involved throughout.
Not every patient arrives knowing which operation they need. Most do not, and that is fine.
ACCESS coordinates private surgical procedures across the six specialties on this page: orthopedic, spine, general, hand and wrist, ENT, and foot and ankle surgery. Each specialty page lists its procedures, from hip and knee replacement to carpal tunnel release, sinus surgery and bunion surgery, with what the operation involves and when it is not the right answer.
Ask us anyway. Your coordinator checks whether a surgeon on the ACCESS roster performs it, and if no one does, we will tell you so plainly rather than stretch a match to fit.
You do not have to work that out yourself. Send us your imaging, any reports and a short description of your symptoms, and we match you with the right sub-specialist. No referral is needed.
Yes. A consultation is a surgeon's opinion, not a booking. Plenty of the people who contact us are better served by physiotherapy, an injection, or waiting and watching, and we would rather tell you that than book an operation you do not need. If surgery is not the right answer for you, we will tell you so honestly.
Speak with a care coordinator about your condition, your options and your timeline. No referral needed, no obligation, and a clear quote before anything is booked.
