Kootenay East MLA Tom Shypitka (BC United) is slamming the NDP government for its glaring failures in managing healthcare across British Columbia, particularly highlighting severe…
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Health services protection officers to be hired in B.C.
The B.C. government this morning announced it is taking steps to build safer workplaces for health-care workers and patients by introducing a new security model…
COTR gets eight new nursing training seats
Six hundred and two new nursing seats are being added to public post-secondary institutions throughout the province, including eight at College of the Rockies (COTR),…
Survey asks health-care workers about racism, discrimination
Health-care workers throughout British Columbia are asked to share their experiences with racism and discrimination in the health-care system as part of a new survey…
On changes to the influenza prevention policy
Letter to the Editor We are very pleased to have reached an agreement with the BC Nurses’ Union, while undertaking discussions with other key unions…
Amendments to Mental Disorder Presumption Regulation
Emergency dispatchers, nurses and publicly funded health-care assistants will have easier access to workers’ compensation for mental-health disorders that come from work-related trauma with regulatory…
300 nursing positions opening in IH
The provincial government is working in partnership with the BC Nurses’ Union (BCNU) to create over 1,600 additional regular nursing positions to the B.C. health…