Major flaws in program to recruit foreign nurses to Quebec, internal report finds By Maura Forrest The Canadian Press Posted March 25, 2025 9:04 am Updated March 27, 2025 8:36 am ...

Newfoundland and Labrador Auditor General Denis Hanrahan said a report released Wednesday showed a whopping $132 million spent on agency nurses in 2024, up from $18 million in 2022.

Yvette Coffey says the nurses’ union’s concerns have been validated by the auditor general’s bombshell report that found major overspending on agency nurses, and even potential fraud. Coffey, the ...

Nationwide, for every 100 Canadian nurses who started in the field in 2022, 40 below the age of 35 left the profession, according to the MEI report. That number is up 25 per cent from 2013.

Without legal authority, a nurse who worked at Saskatoon’s Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital snooped on the private medical records of 314 patients, according to a recent report.

But CIHI report says about 5.4 million Canadians 18 and older said they struggled to see a family physician or nurse practitioner in 2023.

The news release says Hamm is seeking reinstatement, a public apology, a declaration that she was discriminated against as well as monetary compensation. This report by The Canadian Press was ...

The $65-million initiative, announced in 2022, aims to bring 1,500 foreign nurses to Quebec by 2028 to work in regions of the province with acute nursing shortages.