The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) is concerned over an ongoing lack of rural health support, job retention and recruitment and the operation of facilities. President of SARM Ray Orb said that the province’s healthcare system has been under immense strain following the pandemic and that rural Saskatchewan is feeling concerned about every facet […]
Local leaders and healthcare workers are feeling left out of healthcare decisions. That is the message from the Offical Opposition two weeks into their Health Solution Tour. Health Critic Vicki Mowat calls on the government to bring back the Community Health Advisory Networks that were dismantled when the health regions amalgamated into the single Saskatchewan […]
After the federal government presented a new healthcare funding offer that would see an increase of $196 billion to the provinces and territories over the next ten years, the Premier of Saskatchewan has called the offer disappointing. “The federal government has had years to respond to the unanimous request from all provinces and territories to […]
The Government of Saskatchewan is investing more than $5.5 million to help create over 550 new post-secondary training seats across 18 healthcare training programs. The investment will increase training capacity at the province’s post-secondary institutions and reserve additional training seats for Saskatchewan students in highly specialized programs in other provinces. Training programs that will expand […]
Efforts to lure nurses from other provinces are underway in several parts of the country, but the head of a national nurses association says the poaching won’t solve anything unless working conditions are improved. “We know that nurses are facing inadequate working conditions, and that is the main reason many are leaving their jobs,” Sylvain […]
A new survey suggests the vast majority of Canadians have concerns about the state of the healthcare system. Leger and The Association for Canadian Studies surveyed 1,554 Canadian adults over a two-day period in January. Doctors, nurses and patient advocacy groups have been frantically waving red flags about the crisis unfolding in Canadian hospitals since […]
The Saskatchewan Medical Association (SMA) is holding its fall representative assembly. John Gjevre, the President of the SMA, outlined three major concerns. He said that the biggest concern is around the primary healthcare crisis. “There is a real challenge in family medicine. Older physicians are starting to retire and reduce their work time, and some […]
Canada’s representatives of frontline nurses were in Ottawa this week to meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos, and Minister of Seniors Kamal Khera. The nurses discussed critical actions needed to tackle the dire shortage of nurses and save Canada’s public health care system. Tracey Zambory, the president of the Saskatchewan […]
A Saskatoon man says he doesn’t know when he will be able to receive brain surgery due to staffing shortages that have left a necessary pre-op procedure unavailable. On Tuesday, Brennon Dulle and his wife Gillian were at the Saskatchewan Legislature. “I came here because I’ve had two strokes, two brain surgeries, and have severe […]
Lanigan mayor Tony Mycock went to the legislature Wednesday to ask the government the same question he’s been asked by his town’s residents – when is the hospital going to re-open? Closed as what was thought at the time to be a temporary measure in May, 2020 in the early stages of the pandemic, Mycock […]
