CUPE Local 5430, which represents an array of healthcare and ancillary workers, has expressed an interest in understanding how recent changes in the delivery of healthcare in rural parts of the province have impacted their members and what these changes might mean for the overall direction of rural health service delivery in the province. [...] Given the importance of STC to some rural residents who travelled to urban areas to access healthcare, a focus group participant in a study on the impacts of STC’s closure, viewed its privatization as undercutting the mandate of the Saskatchewan Health Authority to serve all people in Saskatchewan. [...] Overall vacancy rates are highest in the northern parts of the province, with 6.4% of positions vacant in the North West and 5.6% vacant in the North East. [...] While the number of nurse practitioners, registered nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and physicians have increased in urban areas of Saskatchewan since 2017, the number of workers practicing in these professions has fallen in rural parts of the province in that same time span (CIHI, 2022). [...] The lack of this data is troubling, as it obfuscates the full extent of the problems plaguing healthcare in rural parts of the province.
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Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION 4
- RESEARCH METHODS 6
- MAJOR SHIFTS IMPACTING SASKATCHEWAN HEALTHCARE SINCE 2017 7
- HEALTH AUTHORITY AMALGAMATION 8
- SASKATCHEWAN TRANSPORTATION COMPANY 8
- COVID-19 9
- VIRTUAL CARE 10
- MAJOR CHALLENGES IMPACTING HEALTHCARE DELIVERY IN RURAL SASKATCHEWAN 11
- 1. STAFFING SHORTAGES 11
- 2. SERVICE DISRUPTIONS 11
- 3. ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION 11
- 4. BROADBAND ACCESS 11
- 1. STAFFING SHORTAGES 12
- PERCENTAGE OF HOURS WORKED BY PART-TIME OR CASUAL EMPLOYEES 2017-2022 15
- 2. SERVICE DISRUPTIONS 16
- 3. ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION 17
- 4. BROADBAND ACCESS 19
- RELATED SOCIAL CHALLENGES 20
- POSSIBLE IMPACTS FOR CUPE LOCAL 5430 21
- FUTURE DIRECTIONS 23
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