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Printer Friendly Version Hospital cleaning will continue to be delivered by Interior Health employees at Vernon Jubilee and Kelowna General even though the construction, finance and maintenance of facility expansion projects will be tendered to a short …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union is calling on B.C. Auditor General John Doyle to launch a value-for-money audit into the costs of building the Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre as a privately financed, public-private …

B.C. CEDAW Group news release (pdf format) The government of British Columbia is ignoring the human rights of the province’s most vulnerable women, according to a new report released today by the B.C. CEDAW Group, a coalition of women’s and human rights …

A tentative deal between the Northern Health Authority and health unions that would have traded wage and other concessions for a six-month freeze on contracting out has been rejected. Although 56 per cent voted in favour of the memorandum of agreement …

Printer Friendly Version Total project cost up 94 per cent to $1.4 billion, unclear risk transfer, and no competition mean a public hospital the best deal, says HEU Respected auditor Ron Parks questions the value for money and the high potential risk …

Medicare campaigners visit Chetwynd at 1:30 p.m. Monday An ambulance carrying an important message about the future of Medicare will be in Chetwynd on Monday as part of a nine day province-wide tour. The ambulance is staffed by front-line health care …

Printer Friendly Version Health unions representing 43,000 hospital and long-term care staff are heading back to the bargaining table with a convincing 89 per cent strike mandate in hand. The multi-union bargaining association called for the province-wide …

Public supports study on impact of closures on seniors’ health More than 83 per cent of British Columbians believe that the B.C. Liberal government should put its plans to close long-term facilities on hold until the impact of this policy on the health of …

Printer Friendly Version The chief executive officer hired by the B.C. Liberal government to run the Fraser Health Authority is eligible for severance payments of up to $650,000, according to documents obtained by the Hospital Employees’ Union under …

Printer Friendly Version Respected forensic accountant Ron Parks will release the findings of his review of the Request for Proposals for an Abbotsford Hospital and Cancer Centre public-private partnership arrangement at a news conference tomorrow, …