Saskatchewan announces Patients First Health Care Plan
The plan includes over 50 actions to expand nurse practitioner roles, virtual care, and private clinics, aiming to complete 450,000 surgeries and reduce wait times by 2028.
- On Monday in Saskatoon, Premier Scott Moe unveiled the Patients First Health Care Plan, outlining more than 50 actions to ensure residents are 'receiving the right care in the right place at the right time'.
- Linking to the 2025 Throne Speech, the plan aims to attach every person in Saskatchewan to primary care and cut surgery waits to three months and diagnostic waits to 60 days by 2028.
- Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill said the plan is taking an all-in approach on nurse practitioners, adding 26 seats split between the University of Saskatchewan and University of Regina, and offering a $78,000 financial incentive with return-of-service to recruit RNs.
- Cockrill announced 36 new acute care beds will open at Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon later this year, Regina General Hospital neonatal ICU will expand by three beds, and the province will build urgent care centres and use more private surgery clinics.
- Cockrill said the government plans fall legislation on scope, while Carla Beck called it a recycle of 2012, stating 'We need big, bold change to get our health system out of last place.
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Premier Moe announces 'Patients First' health-care plan to address issues
REGINA — Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe released a plan Monday that aims to bolster patient care with a focus on nurse practitioners, private surgeries and virtual appointments.
Province rolls out healthcare plan, targets nurse practitioner access and surgery wait times
The provincial government says its lengthy new healthcare plan will be a road map to put Saskatchewan patients first, though the Opposition NDP says it's virtually the same announcement as the Saskatchewan Party made more than a decade ago.
Expansion of virtual care, more nurse practitioners key parts of new Sask. health-care plan
The plan lays out more than 50 actions the government will take to ensure Saskatchewan residents are "receiving the right care in the right place at the right time." The Opposition NDP says it rehashes old commitments.
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