Some facts about health care cuts in British Columbia

BCNU speaks out and opposes health care cuts in BC. We have tracked the extent of health care cuts in BC since 2002 in acute care hospitals, in the community and in long term care nursing homes. We outlined the major cuts across the province and for most of the individual health authorities in a series of leaflets.

The following documents are in a PDF format:

• Nurses' Agenda/Health Care Cuts Across B.C . (307kb)
  • in Punjabi (2345kb)
  • in Chinese (1371kb)
• Health Care Cuts in the Interior Health Authority (198kb)
• Health Care Cuts in the Kootenays (198kb)
• Health Care Cuts on Vancouver Island (243kb)
• Health Care Cuts in Vancouver Coastal Health (239kb)
• Health Care Cuts in the Fraser Health Authority (246kb)
• BCNU/BCTF Joint Union publication (1726kb)

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives:

• Continuing Care Renewal or Retreat? PDF format 314 kb BC Residential and Home Health Care Restructuring 2001-2004.
• CCPA says government's response to long-term care study not good enough More...

Contracting Out Health Care Support Services

• Falling Standards, Rising Risks: Issues in hospital cleanliness with contracting out, October 2004