Northern health care doesn’t have to be in crisis. Healthcare workers have a plan to lower costs, and provide high-quality care for people.
Tell governments to support changes that will fix the Northern health care crisis.
We are advocates for northern health care who know there is a better way to do things. We represent health care workers and their communities. This campaign is sponsored by the Northern Territories Federation of Labour, which advocates for and protects workers’ rights in the North West Territories and Nunavut.
Many Northern communities experience short staffing and medical centre care closures. People have to leave home and travel hundreds of kilometres to get help. Health care workers struggle with burnout and high turnover means patients rarely seem the same professional twice.
These challenges impact everyone — but there are solutions and things can change. Better care is possible.
Health care workers have ideas to improve the care they can provide that will actually reduce costs, but don’t feel government is listening to them.
Health care workers have made-in-the-North solutions that will improve patient care and cut costs for governments. Here’s what they would do.
Read more about solutions Northern health care workers solutions.
Tell governments to work together to fix the northern health care crisis
Health care professionals are sounding the alarm, and we need to listen to them. The short-staffed health care system is leaving northerners without care.
Instead of spending millions on temporary contract workers from the south, we want our governments to invest in permanent, public solutions, like training northerners to provide health care. On hiring, northern governments aren’t moving fast enough to fill the gaps and need more modern hiring practices.
Moving forward Canada’s reconciliation with Indigenous people means investing in northern health care. If we mobilize enough people, we can force elected officials to act.
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