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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…

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…

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…

This past Wednesday, July10, SUN President, Tracy Zambory, spoke to the Saskatoon media and public about the importance of comprehensive sex-education for our youth at the 2019 Council of the Federation meetings of Canada’s premieres. Zambory's statement:  "I am a registered Nurse and President of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses. I stand here today on behalf of…

Every day, nurses in Saskatchewan and across Canada are punched, kicked, spat on, sworn at and beaten, writes Linda Silas and Tracy Zambory. Canada’s provincial and territorial premiers are assembling in Saskatoon this week for their annual summit, and nurses unions from across the country will be on hand to deliver a clear message: Violence is not part of our job. Every day, nurses in…