CUPE unveils study titled ‘Running on Empty' that highlights staffing crisis in Ontario hospitals
A new study outlining the concerns of Ontario nurses is the impetus for a Northern Ontario media tour by a couple of health care advocates who say the Ontario government needs to act urgently and quickly to resolve the staff shortage crisis.
The qualitative study was complemented by a poll surveying 775 hospital workers, including those working in Sudbury and other venues in Northern Ontario, said Brophy. Another nurse said that the shortage of health-care workers had created a two-year backlog, meaning that patients with various ailments had been waiting that long for a medical appointment.
Although the number of the subjects in the study was 26 individuals, Brophy said the purpose of the study was not to include large numbers of people, but rather to document the real and lived experiences of people closely tied to the health-care system. He said it is an academically valid approach. Brophy and Hurley said the health care staffing shortage is now a crisis and needs government intervention as quickly as possible. Brophy said the Ontario health system has been gradually eroded since the Premier Mike Harris days . He said Ontario's health-care system has been understaffed and under-funded for nearly 30 years.
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