Tag Archives: health care

To ease pressure on emergency rooms in Saskatchewan, paramedics will soon consult a physician virtually to determine whether a patient can be released or referred for further care as part of a pilot p...

The Saskatchewan Health Authority has offered jobs to 161 Filipino health-care workers under the provincial government’s Health Human Resources Action Plan. The government launched the action pl...

It's not just family doctors that are in high demand in Saskatchewan. According to Dr. Karen Shaw, CEO of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan (CPSS), the province is short on all ty...

Premier Scott Moe is continuing to push Ottawa on the healthcare front. The No. 1 item on the agenda for the premiers was asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for more money when it came to funding he...

Not for the first time, Canada's premiers are extending an invitation to the prime minister for a meeting in January about health-care funding. The premiers came together at a Council of the Federatio...

Saskatchewan's health minister is accepting all the recommendations from this week's provincial auditor's report, but is also touting the work his government has already done to recruit health-care wo...

The Saskatchewan auditor believes there's more the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) could do to bring in hard-to-recruit health-care workers quicker. Auditor Tara Clemett released the second volume...

With Saskatoon's loss of a doctor's office last week amid its ongoing physician shortage, a family physician shared that clinic owners are trudging through their own problems trying to keep the lights...

Job offers have been accepted by nearly two dozen health-care workers so far in the Philippines, according to Saskatchewan Health Authority CEO Andrew Will. In an effort to address Saskatchewan's shor...

While Jolene Van Alstine looked on, wearing a wan expression, her partner Miles Sundeen talked about her years-long battle with illness. About six years ago, Van Alstine began getting nauseated; at fi...