Saskatchewan Health Care

• Sask. government announces largest budget increase to health-care funding

  The budget for 2024-25 shows the province announced a record investment of $7.6 billion for health care which includes investments for various initiatives.

  Politics

  Mar 20
  
• Saskatchewan announces new initiatives to enhance, expand nurse practitioner clinics

  The province announced new initiatives to enhance and expand utilization of Nurse Practitioners throughout the health care system.

  Health

  Mar 12
  
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• Sask. woman to receive dialysis treatments closer to home in Manitoba

  Maureen McBratney was flown to Saskatoon in September 2023 to receive dialysis treatments and has been stuck there since. But soon, she will be returning home.

  Health

  Feb 12
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• Saskatchewan auditor reports concerns around provincial health authority, child abuse investigations

  In her report released Wednesday, Tara Clemett says 722 people have been waiting for a neurosurgeon, and about-one third of them have been waiting for more than a year.

  Health

  Dec 6, 2023
• Survey finds health literacy gap among Saskatchewanians

  The Saskatchewan Blue Cross released a survey that reveals that 76 per cent of those living in the province overestimate their level of health literacy.

  Health

  Nov 28, 2023
• ‘I am the nurse’: Saskatoon nurses plead for staffing amid health-care crisis

  Members of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses and health-care workers cried as they shared horrors from the hospital and called on the province for staffing and resources.

  Canada

  Nov 27, 2023
• 2 Regina women frustrated with long waiting lists for biopsies

  Two Regina women recently met with the Saskatchewan health minister to talk about the long wait-lists in the province for those in need of biopsies.

  Canada

  Nov 2, 2023
• 43 nurses from the Philippines arrived in Sask. for clinical training

  Forty-three nurses from the Philippines have arrived in Sask. and will start their clinical training and will be ready to work in the provincial health-care system end of the year.

  Canada

  Nov 2, 2023
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• Saskatchewan Polytechnic adds additional training seats for medical technologists

  On Monday, the Saskatchewan government announced it would be providing funding for 10 additional MLT seats and eight additional MRT seats in Saskatoon.

  Health

  Sep 11, 2023
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• Battlefords Union Hospital ICU closed for weeks, memo shows

  After a leaked document showed an ICU bed in Regina was closed weeks ago, another document has uncovered the ICU at the Union Hospital in the Battlefords has been closed for weeks.

  Health

  Jul 27, 2023