Saskatchewan residents with a MySaskHealthRecord can now see their health records on their cell phones. The app has the same functionality as the web-based version of the tool. It allows users to see laboratory test results, medical imaging reports, immunization history, prescription history, and clinical visit history. It also allows users to add their information […]
The Saskatchewan Workers Compensation Board (WCB) released their 2022 annual report, which showed healthcare workers suffer the most injuries of any occupation in the province. In 2022, Health Authority, Hospital, and Care Home workers saw 3,392 claims accepted by their WCB, with no other occupation breaking the 1,000 claim mark. “It does have a high […]
The Saskatchewan NDP says healthcare workers are being muzzled after employees at a small-town hospital were told in an internal memo not to speak with elected officials about their concerns. The Saskatchewan Health Authority memo sent on February 7th was released by the Opposition and tells Lanigan Hospital staff not to coordinate tours or answer questions […]
Krista Reid’s son has been at the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital in Saskatoon for more than a week dealing with stomach problems that she says doctors are unable to diagnose. Reid’s eight-year-old Casten Boyer requires Saskatchewan’s only pediatric gastroenterologist for a diagnosis, but she said the specialist is no longer taking new patients and is […]
The Offical Opposition is calling on the Sask. Party government to address the province’s EMS crisis, which has led to calls for an ambulance going unanswered. Official Opposition Leader Carla Beck, Health Critic Vicki Mowat, and Rural and Remote Health Critic Matt Love called the Government after they obtained documents that show that through the […]
The Government of Saskatchewan announced that the Rural Physician Incentive Program (RPIP) is now in effect. Rural and Remote Health Minister Everett Hindley said the program aims to attract more family physicians to rural and northern communities across the province. “Family physicians play an essential role in rural and northern communities as they support emergency […]
The federal government announced $59.5 billion of new spending over the next five years as part of a narrowly focused budget that also promises to find savings in the public service and increase tax revenues. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s budget, tabled in the House of Commons, has three main focuses: the clean economic transition, health […]
Saskatchewan family doctors say the province’s latest budget fails to make needed reforms that would help keep them here as some look elsewhere for work. Saskatchewan Medical Association President Dr. John Gjevre said the Saskatchewan Party government’s budget doesn’t do enough to transform primary care so that more people can access a family doctor. While […]
With SUMA’s annual convention and tradeshow approaching, they are calling on the provincial government to address issues in Saskatchewan’s hometowns, including reduced access to health care and the costs of landfill decommissioning. Last year, SUMA members called for the development and implementation of a long-term recruiting and retention plan to provide and maintain emergent, acute, […]
The federal government says in a news release that it has signed an agreement in principle with Manitoba to invest more than $6.7 billion in the province’s health-care system over 10 years. That includes more than $1.2 billion for a new bilateral agreement focusing on shared health-care priorities. It also includes $72 million in an […]
