{"id":78530,"date":"2025-08-18T11:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78530\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:09:07","slug":"registered-nurses-union-continues-to-seek-answers-on-agency-nursing-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78530\/","title":{"rendered":"Registered Nurses\u2019 Union Continues to Seek Answers on Agency Nursing Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nurse-Hospital-Health.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Registered Nurses' Union Continues to Seek Answers on Agency Nursing Contracts\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The RNU is renewing its call for answers related to the $255 million in private nursing agency contracts. <\/p>\n<p>The Registered Nurses\u2019 Union says the Public Accounts Committee hearing on the Auditor General\u2019s scathing report on private nursing contracts left more questions than answers and confirmed that systemic problems remain unaddressed. <\/p>\n<p>The executive director of the RNC says more than a quarter of a billion dollars was spent on private nursing contracts, and they still don\u2019t know who agreed to them, how they were approved, or how questionable invoices were paid. <\/p>\n<p>The union says Tuesday\u2019s hearing failed to address who signed the contract with Canadian Health Labs in each region, who heads the \u201ccentralized contracting\u201d process, and what changes were implemented to ensure contracts are reviewed, approved and monitored properly.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The RNU is renewing its call for answers related to the $255 million in private nursing agency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-78530","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\/78530","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=78530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}