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SUN Launches New Website & Online WSR

CHECK IT OUT!  SUN’s new website is crisp, clean, easy to navigate and mobile-friendly! The new website features: President’s Messages Did You Know Bulletins Collective Agreements Newswire and Events calendar with pre-filtered searches Members Resources from Education to Professional Practice to Occupational Health & Safety information Tools and resources for our…

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Taking Charge of Our Own Future

Nothing changes without action. We hold in each of us the power to chart a new course for our lives – to take things in a different direction. The minute we as individuals make the conscious decision to follow through with our thoughts and turn them into action we begin to take charge of our own future.  I know you might be thinking this sentiment is better suited to an inspirational…

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Health professionals offering help this summer through Healthline 811

The Saskatchewan Health Authority says summer can bring up a lot of health questions and Healthline 811 is a great place for answers. Questions on sunburns, scrapes and bug bites are common at this time of the year, and health professionals from the provincial healthline are in service for 24 hours a day, seven days a week to help with those concerns. Manager for Healthline 811 Sangeeta Gupta…

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New support beds for mental health patients soon to come for North Battleford, other cities in Sask.

Research shows stable housing combined with various levels of community support can lead to better outcomes for people with complex mental health and addictions issues. That from Executive Director of Primary Health Services for South, Northwest Saskatchewan Vikki Smart on 75 new residential support beds slated for North Battleford, Prince Albert, Saskatoon and Regina. The Saskatchewan Health…

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Joint commitment on pharmacare from Premiers

SUN is extremely pleased to see the joint commitment of Canada’s Premiers to work together towards achieving a national pharmacare plan that will provide access to affordable medicine to all Canadians, as well as to unite around improving mental health and addictions services. SUN and Saskatchewan’s registered nurses, along with the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions…

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