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The Board of Directors met for two (2) days, March 20 & 21, in Regina, to review SUN's audited financial statements in advance of the Annual Meeting; as well as discuss the current political, professional and strategic environments.  The following is a summary of the financial and business decisions made at this meeting. BOARD DECISIONS The Board approved the…

“To have safe patient care, we need a safe workforce.” Sandra Cripps, CEO, Saskatchewan Association of Safe Workplaces in Healthcare (SASWH). We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. SUN is proud member of SASWH and the Provincial Violence Prevention Framework/Strategy Steering Committee, led by SASWH, who are tasked with developing and implementing tools and strategies to…

Thousands of Nova Scotia health-care workers, including lab technologists, in-hospital paramedics and child psychologists, could be walking off the job soon. The health-care bargaining unit, which is made up of members of the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union, CUPE, Unifor and the Nova Scotia Nurses Union, sent a message to its members Wednesday with…

Mandatory overtime has reached a crisis level for nurses at St. Boniface Hospital and workers in the program that cares for women and babies are bearing the brunt of it, the Manitoba Nurses Union says. There have been as many incidents of mandatory overtime at the Winnipeg facility reported so far this year — 328 — as there were in all of 2017, said union president Sandi Mowat.…

The province’s future physicians made rounds at the Legislative Building on Tuesday to raise concerns about Saskatchewan’s mental health crisis.  “The word crisis is not something to be thrown around, but I think it’s appropriate in this case,” said Alison White, chair of the Government Affairs and Advocacy Committee with the Student Medical Society of…