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NDP, nurse practitioners call for overhaul of health system to improve recruitment, retention
The NDP and Saskatchewan Association of Nurse Practitioners are calling for a complete overhaul of the Saskatchewan's health care program, in order to keep more health care professionals in the provin...
Oct 11, 2022
Nurse practitioner, NDP critical of provincial health plan
It's been just over a week since the provincial government released its Health Human Resources Action Plan, a major investment aiming to help recruit, train, incentivize and retain healthcare workers ...
Sep 16, 2022 Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck. (File photo/650 CKOM)
More questions than answers for Sask. unions as they prepare for life without restrictions
Some unions in the province have been outspoken over the last month when it comes to pleading with the Saskatchewan government to stick with current public health measures surrounding COVID-19. Now, w...
Feb 09, 2022
Survey suggests health-care worker morale sinking in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan health-care workers are looking to work less, leave the field or retire early as distress and other mental health strains increase following the latest wave of COVID-19. A survey from Uni...
Dec 10, 2021 (Brady Lang/650 CKOM file photo)
Feds sending six critical-care nurses to Saskatchewan
Help is on the way for Saskatchewan's beleaguered health-care workers - but it's not as much as the province was after. During a COVID-19 technical briefing Monday, Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency p...
Oct 25, 2021
Temporary emergency department closures anticipated, doctors and nurses demand more from government
Saskatchewan physicians and nurses are banding together to call on the provincial government for greater action to combat rising COVID-19 numbers in Saskatchewan. In a joint release Wednesday, the Sas...
Sep 29, 2021 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
Service slowdown needed to deal with rising hospitalizations, SUN president says
The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) is calling for a temporary slowdown in healthcare services as its members struggle to keep pace with rising hospitalizations under the Delta-driven fourth wave. ...
Aug 28, 2021
Sask. health care workers account for 5 per cent of provincial cases: CIHI
Health care workers in Saskatchewan were sick from COVID-19 at a rate lower than the national average consistently through the pandemic. New statistics from the Canadian Institute for Health Informati...
Aug 19, 2021 Nurse Leah Sawatsky receives the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 15, 2020. (Photo courtesy of the Saskatchewan Health Authority)
'It is a lot worse than what you think it is': Regina nurse describes ICU conditions
As the province continues to see intensive care units filled with COVID patients, a nurse at the Regina General Hospital (RGH) is speaking out on what conditions really look like. Whitney Walker-Ross ...
Apr 23, 2021
'A recipe for disaster:' SUN responds to COVID rule loosening, new variants
Tracy Zambory didn't hold back her thoughts on the changes to Saskatchewan's health orders that were announced Tuesday. The president of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) said upon hearing the ne...
Mar 10, 2021 Nurse Leah Sawatsky receives the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 15, 2020. (Photo courtesy of the Saskatchewan Health Authority)
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