Regina’s Urgent Care Centre reduces hours, 3rd time in a month, closed Sunday

For the third time in a month, Regina’s Urgent Care Centre (UCC) has had to reduce its hours and will be closed for one day.

The centre normally operates seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

On Thursday, the SHA announced the following changes to the facility’s hours:

• Friday, July 11, 2025 – open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
• Saturday, July 12, 2025 – open from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
• Sunday, July 13, 2025 – closed all day

It will return to its regular hours of operation on Monday, July 14.

“This temporary adjustment is to accommodate physician availability,” read the statement from the SHA.

Read more:

• Lack of doctors means Regina’s Urgent Care Centre is only open until 4 p.m. Sunday
• No timeline for Regina’s Urgent Care Centre to be open for 24 hours
• What you need to know about Saskatchewan’s first urgent care centre

This comes after Sheila Anderson, Vice-President of Integrated Regina Health with the SHA, said the UCC is fully staffed and meeting the needs of patients.

Saskatchewan’s Minister of Health, Jeremy Cockrill, joined the Evan Bray Show recently and talked about the UCC.

Listen to the Health Minister on the Evan Bray Show:

The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity.

Evan Bray: Do you see in the near future where we’re going to be able to have not just the one in Regina, but the others that have been promised in the province, not only opening, but operating on a 24/7 basis?

Jeremy Cockrill: I know there’s been lots of discussion about being open 24/7. But we are constantly doing analysis between the Ministry of Health and the SHA and actually, I think our focus now is going to be, instead of opening for another eight hours, getting these other six Urgent Care Access Points open around the province: another one in Regina, we have one already under construction in Saskatoon. We’re working on finding a second location in Saskatoon and then the three other communities, Prince Albert, North Battleford and Moose Jaw.

That’s our priority right now, in terms of just noticing the success that we’ve seen in Regina. We need to replicate that model in more communities, which will ease the pressure on our emergency rooms. And at the end of the day, give better access, quicker access, to patients who need it.

Do you think we were overly ambitious? I’m not at all disputing the success of it, but rolling it out might be more complicated, especially from a resource perspective. What are your thoughts?

Cockrill: I think we have to use our resources wisely. I don’t think you can be too ambitious when it comes to trying to make changes in the healthcare system.

I’d happily be criticized for being too ambitious, because at the end of the day, that’s the job that the premier has asked me to do, and my colleagues have asked me to do, is to ambitiously provide better access to care for patients around the province. But we have to make sure our resources are used wisely. Certainly, when it comes to Regina, I think the volumes that we’re seeing at the Pasqua and General Hospital’s emergency rooms overnight, there’s still volume there, but I think we can handle it across those two facilities. Our focus is going to be getting a second Urgent Care center open in Regina, as well as those two in Saskatoon, PA, North Battleford and Moose Jaw.