Ambulance Delays

• B.C. paramedics’ union ‘optimistic’ amid movement at bargaining table

  Last week, the two sides agreed to bring veteran mediator Vince Ready to the table, and APBC president Troy Clifford said since then there has been progress.

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  Dec 22, 2022
  
• New Brunswick Liberals call for renegotiation of ambulance contract

  The province's ambulance contract was under fire in a previous auditor general report for its bonus structure and lack of incentives to improve service in rural areas.

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  Dec 7, 2022
  
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• Injured B.C. hockey player left on the ice for almost an hour due to ambulance delay

  Troy Clifford, president of BC Ambulance Paramedics and Dispatches, said right now they are down ambulances and paramedics in many areas around the province. 

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  Oct 4, 2022
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• N.B. ambulance offload delays projected to be 600 per cent higher than 2017

  Officials say the increase in delays is caused by other issues within the health-care system and there's little they can do to alleviate them.

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  Sep 8, 2022
• Horgan says B.C. is addressing ambulance shortage

  Premier John Horgan says British Columbia has made a "significant investment" in rural and remote ambulance services.

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  Aug 30, 2022
• Vancouver firefighters to proceed with plan limiting responses to some medical calls

  Starting Tuesday, firefighters will only respond to life-threatening calls, overdoses, burns, hazmat emergencies, motor vehicle crashes and technical rescues.

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  Jul 26, 2022
• Vancouver firefighters may stop responding to many medical calls

  Vancouver firefighters could soon only respond to life-threatening calls, overdoses, burns, hazmat emergencies, motor vehicle crashes and technical rescues.

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  Jul 12, 2022
• Is the Urgences-santé dispatcher shortage causing deadly delays?

  Concerns are once again being raised about staff shortages at Urgences-santé after an eight-month-old child died following a call to 911 earlier this week.

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  Jun 17, 2022
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• Ontario government suggests ways to reduce ambulance off load delays

  Ontario is telling emergency services to consider having paramedic crews tend to more than one patient at a time in hospital ERs as one way to reduce delays.

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  Feb 24, 2022
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• Mayor writes province raising concerns over new paramedic system in Nakusp

  Under the scheduled on-call system, two paramedics are staffed for eight hours per day. For the remaining 16 hours, paramedics are on call in Nakusp.

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  Dec 12, 2021