{"id":22211,"date":"2025-07-25T04:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22211\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T04:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:26:14","slug":"77-new-and-enhanced-healthcare-positions-announced-around-the-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22211\/","title":{"rendered":"77 new and enhanced healthcare positions announced around the province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The funds come from the SHA\u2019s recent administrative restructuring announcement, where it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjme.com\/2025\/06\/12\/sha-cuts-26-leadership-positions-to-improve-local-management\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cut 26 leadership positions<\/a> back in June.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753405088_218_indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The positions include a range of roles like registered nurses, combined lab and X-ray technicians, medical radiation technologists and phlebotomists. Many of the new positions are eligible to apply for the Saskatchewan rural and remote recruitment incentive. It provides up to $50,000 over three years with a return in service agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdding Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, Medical Radiation Technologists, and other positions that deliver hands-on patient care reflect the shared commitment of the Government of Saskatchewan and SHA to ensure Saskatchewan residents have seamless access to care, as close to home as possible,\u201d Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill said. \u201cThe SHA has closely scrutinized their costs and identified savings that will help fund these essential positions and provide positive care to patients in communities stretching across the province.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the launch of the Health Human Resources Action Plan in 2022, the province has added over 400 jobs in the healthcare field within the province.<\/p>\n<p>NDP responds<\/p>\n<p>Keith Jorgensen, associate health critic for the NDP, said the government should focus on filling existing positions, rather than creating new ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to publicly available data, this morning, we had 1,647 vacant health care positions in Saskatchewan. And so my question would be, if they\u2019ve been unable to fill those 1,647 vacant positions, what leaves them to believe\u2026 that they\u2019re going to have success in filling these new 77 positions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Jorgensen said part of the issue is that the government isn\u2019t listening to the concerns of healthcare workers, or even engaging with them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to focus on why people are leaving, why people are dissatisfied with their jobs and if the government doesn\u2019t go out and talk to these people, they\u2019re never going to solve those problems,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013With files from CKOM<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The funds come from the SHA\u2019s recent administrative restructuring announcement, where it cut 26 leadership positions back in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-22211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}