We’ve all been there.

Sick. Hurt. Worried. Exhausted.

And in those times, we’ve had someone to count on when we’ve needed it most. Helping with recovery, offering advice and support, and ensuring we have the best care possible at every step.

Nurses are a critical part of safe, compassionate, consistent patient care.

So what happens when there aren’t enough nurses? Or the facilities they work in are underfunded and overcrowded? When they don’t have enough time to spend with each patient?

Changes imposed by Premier Pallister and his government mean nurses in Manitoba’s health facilities are being stretched to their limits. Wait times are up and the amount of mandatory overtime in some facilities has almost tripled. Increasing workloads mean nurses have less time to spend with each patient.

The situation is only getting worse with more shortsighted cuts on the horizon.

And when the government cuts frontline services, they’re cutting your access to the best care possible – and putting you and your family at risk.

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that Manitobans deserve better.

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The background to this petition is as follows:

The Provincial Government’s program of cuts and restructuring in health care have had serious negative consequences, reduced both access to and quality of care for patients, increased wait times, exacerbated the nursing shortage, and significantly increased workload and the reliance on overtime from nurses and other health care professionals.
Further cuts and consolidation are opposed by a majority of Manitobans, and will only further reduce access to health care services.
The Provincial Government has rushed through these cuts and changes, and failed to adequately consult nurses and health care professionals who provide frontline patient care.
Ongoing cuts and changes appear to be more about saving money than improving health care.

We petition the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as follows:

To urge the Provincial Government reverse cuts and closures that negatively impact patients’ ability to access timely, quality health care.
To urge the Provincial Government to make real investments in Manitoba’s public health care system that will improve the timeliness and quality of care for patients by increasing the number of beds across the system, and recruiting and retaining an adequate number of nurses and other health professionals to meet Manitoba’s needs.

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Manitoba Nurses Union

6 hours ago

ER and Urgent Care wait times are up again, month over month and year over year. When will the Pallister government start listening to nurses, and stop health care cuts and closures? ... See MoreSee Less

Monthly Wait Time Reporting | Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

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The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority – Caring For Health

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If pallister wins the next election then obviously no one was listening! He's ruining our health care system! It's one thing to complain but everyone needs to vote. And if you vote PC don't be coming to the hospital like you deserve better. Long wait times, short staffed...it will affect you! So if you vote PC then you asked for it...so dont complain! Unfortunately the ones who were listening and realize we all deserve better, they too suffer as a result! He completely disgusts me! While he has no clue whats going on and enjoying his many vacations...he's running his nurses and health care workers into the ground! As much as id love him to be my patient one day...it would never happen. Money talks and he'll be enjoying his stay probably in some fancy privatized hospital in the states, like last time!

I just had surgery on a Tuesday at the Concordia and I want to commend the nursing staff at the day hospital. I am hard to get an IV going and god bless the two that tried. They were so kind and supportive. The anesthesiologist who came in was rude and very disrespectful to both of them. He failed miserably and the IV went interstitial. He was even ruder and very aggressive. They apologized for him. Our healthcare is in the toilet but thank god we have the amazing nursing staff we do or we would be in a much place then we are. Thank you very much Day Hospital Staff, you rock.

My bad. I was busy playing card and giving facials.

They will never listen

The flu must still be going on.....

And yet, Pallister is expected to win the next election. Everyone needs to pay attention to this next vote!

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Manitoba Nurses Union

1 day ago

"While the government and Lifeflight sort out their funding and resource issues, rural communities like ours are suffering the consequences of not having a vital provincial program fully operational" ... See MoreSee Less

Swan River doctors sound alarm over Lifeflight access | CBC News

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A group of physicians in Swan River is calling on the province to address changes they say are having “profound and dangerous effects” on the community’s air ambulance service.

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