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2002
December 19, 2002
Announcement confirms the end of UBC Hospital as an acute care facility
Not only will patients lose access to acute medical services at UBC, but patients seeking treatment at Vancouver General Hospital and St. Paul’s will be forced to wait even longer for emergency care, complex operations. More...
December 17, 2002
Health Authority challenged to open its meeting tomorrow on UBC Hospital
Nurses say patients have a right to participate in the debate about the fate of a crucial acute care facility. More...
December 12, 2002
Fate of UBC Hospital is sealed
Chain of events triggered by government and Health Authority effectively kills the hospital as an acute care facility. More...
November 29, 2002
Nurses challenge provincial government to get in step with Romanow recommendations
what’s needed is a public process for implementation. More...
November 28, 2002
Romanow Report: the people have spoken
Will the BC Liberals listen and stand behind medicare? More...
November 27, 2002
BC Health Coalition to respond province-wide to the release of Romanow’s report.
On November 28, 2002, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien will table Roy Romanow’s Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada Report in the House of Commons. More...
November 15, 2002
Nurses welcome suspension of seniors’ user fee
But they’ll be on guard against any new manoeuvres to sneak around the Canada Health Act. More...
November 14, 2002
Nurses demand Hansen stop hospital user fees for seniors
The daily charge for in-patient rehabilitation care is a clear violation of the Canada Health Act. More...
October 22
Health care workers slam Fraser Health Authority scheme to replace RNs with LPNs
Vulnerable seniors with complex health care problems need more staff not less. [ full version - 191K pdf]
September 26, 2002
Nurses announce co-sponsorship of controversial film
The BC Nurses’ Union today threw its support behind a feature film about the controversial Four Pillars Drug Strategy and efforts by drug users to improve their living conditions and their health. More...
September 4, 2002
Nurses demand that Health Services Minister Colin Hansen commit to immediate funding to implement national nursing recommendations
BC Liberals are failing to effectively address nursing shortage, claims BC Nurses’ Union. More...
September 2, 2002
Nurses call on Health Minister to halt runaway service cuts until plans are in place
Comox’s St. Joseph’s Hospital races ahead with staff displacements despite nurses’ concerns about lack of patient care planning. More...
August 30, 2002
Nurses say taxpayers, nurses and inmates to benefit from new model of prison care
Provincial Health Services Authority must take the lead in overseeing health services. More...
August 26, 2002
BC government misrepresents commitment to keep and attract nurses
Over 600 nurses have lost their jobs, while Liberals continue to mislead the public about their campaign to improve the nursing shortage. More...
August 21, 2002
BC Nurses’ Union urges provincial government to reverse health care cuts after reviewing Canadian Nursing Advisory Committee recommendations
BC Liberal government record creates appalling workplace conditions for BC nurses. More...
August 15, 2002
Nurses are appalled by misleading government ads
While the campaign touts the government’s effort to keep and attract nurses, in fact Victoria has cut care for patients by eliminating more than 300 nursing positions since the spring. More...
July 29, 2002
Nurses say tragedies at Cottonwoods should have been avoided
Two years ago nurses and other care providers warned that management’s decision to remove resident care coordinators and supervisors would result in deteriorating care. More...
June 28, 2002
"Just Say No" Kit Available For Long-Term Care Residents and Their Famalies
A "just say no" kit is now available to B.C. seniors facing uncertainty about their future in long-term care facilities. More...
June 2, 2002
Nurses overwhelmingly oppose Campbell’s health policies
McIntrye and Mustel poll shows more than 83 per cent of BC Nurses’ Union members are dissatisfied with the way the Liberals are handling health care. More...
May 22, 2002
Nurses’ leader calls East Kootenay cuts uncaring
Debra McPherson launches tour of the region hit the hardest by the provincial Liberal government’s health care policies. More...
May 20, 2002
Nurses at BC Women and Children’s Hospital fear for patient and personal safety
Decision to award private contract to anti-abortionist is highly inappropriate. More...
May 18, 2002
BCNU members re-elect Debra McPherson as President and Patt Shuttleworth as Vice President
Debra McPherson has been reelected by BCNU members as president of the British Columbia Nurses’ Union. Members also reelected Patt Shuttleworth as BCNU vice president. More...
May 16, 2002
Northern Health Authority prepares to backtrack on commitment to not close acute care hospitals
Nurses and community members are outraged that Chetwynd Hospital now may lose all its acute care beds. More...
May 15, 2002
BCNU president visits West Kootenays on National Medicare Day
Debra McPherson speaks out for nurses and residents in the region hardest hit by BC Liberal health care cuts. More...
May 13, 2002
Nurses’ Union backs drive for proportional representation
British Columbians need a fairer voting system in provincial elections that will more accurately reflect the true wishes of the people. More...
May 8, 2002
Nurses’ "Red Alert" for Health care in BC
Every resident must act now to save public health care. More...
May 2, 2002
Nurses’ reality check - Campbell’s promise to seniors can’t be achieved while his government puts service cuts, budget first
Front-line care-givers know that adequate resources aren’t available to develop the "care plans" the Premier wants, or to support the elderly in their homes or in "assisted living". More...
May 1, 2002
George Derby Centre nurses threatened by management for speaking out Nurses say families of the veterans living in the Burnaby home need to know the impact of proposed staffing cuts to the quality of care. Despite bullying, meeting Thursday will go ahead as planned. More...
April 28, 2002
Attempts to compare BC health care cuts to Saskatchewan closures in 1993 are spurious and misleading
Nurses say efforts to justify the planned closures of hospitals in BC by pointing to what happened in Saskatchewan in 1993 are spurious and misleading. More...
April 24, 2002
Health care scheme will make system worse: nurses
The government is putting its fiscal agenda and its plans to privatize the system first, not patients. More...
April 22, 2002
The "New Liberal Math" is revealed at today’s Open Cabinet
The 5,000 new long term care beds promised to patients during the election campaign turns out to be just 500. The government says a one-hour drive to the nearest emergency ward is good enough. And there’s no money to fund transition costs for their health system overhaul. More...
April 20, 2002
Nurses want government financial help and needed services for forest workers, communities
Financial devastation caused by the US softwood lumber tariff will increase the burden on health care and social service facilities, just as the province threatens to cut them back. More...
April 12, 2002
Veterans under attack by government long term care cuts
War veterans who call George Derby Centre in Burnaby their home are being forced to endure another battle, as management slashes services and cuts registered nursing positions. While the veterans may have survived conflicts in Europe and Asia, the dislocations caused by Liberal budget cuts could kill them. More...
March 26, 2002
Nurses outraged by Long Term Care bed closures
Penticton community is misled by government, as beds are cut and residents are left without Registered Nursing care. More...
March 20, 2002
Nurses warn privatization scheme puts profits before patients
They call on Premier Campbell to stand behind his pre-election commitment and repudiate the Price Waterhouse Coopers report. More...
March 19, 2002
Unions launch Charter of Rights suit against B.C. government to defend health workers, Medicare
Court asked to strike down Premier Campbell’s contract-breaking law, Bill 29. More...
March 6, 2002
Nurses find yet another threat to health care in secret document
Not only does the plan put patients last, it calls for an end to nursing strategy initiatives. More...
February 20, 2002
Nurses say dismantling health care services does not put patients first
Axing efficient units such as Delta ER, VGH Surgical Short-Stay and UBC Discharge Planning Unit will take its toll on Lower Mainland residents. More...
February 19. 2002
Liberals Put Patients with Ability to Pay First
Patients to pay more for less services as government moves to increase "patient participation" with user fees and co-payments while reducing access to health services. More...
February 14, 2002
Campbell speech: More lies about nurses
Premier’s untruthful TV address is no comfort to patients facing Liberal plans to close hospitals and cut health care services. More...
February 7, 2002
Hike in Medicare premiums reveals Liberals’ incompetence
The increase places the biggest burden on the working poor and the middle class, as well as increasing small business costs. For average wage earners, the benefit from the ill-advised income tax cuts is now gone. More...
January 30, 2002
Legislation permits privatization of emergency wards, other key nursing services
Nurses have written the Minister of Health Services, demanding he provide a written commitment to the patients and the voters of BC, that the government will not privatize key health care services. More...
January 25, 2002
Bill 29: Government seizes power to slash services to patients
Breaking his word that he would respect contracts, Gordon Campbell gives health employers the power to downsize and close facilities across the province without consulting communities or health care providers. More...
January 24, 2002
Nurses’ warning on Medicare is one of several events at Premier’s conference today, tomorrow
Today (Thursday Jan. 24), tomorrow (Friday Jan. 25). More...
January 23, 2002
Nurses issue challenge to Campbell as he prepares to lead national Premier’s conference on health care
"Come clean about the rollbacks your government is planning to patient services in BC. Stop terrifying communities by threatening to cut beds and close their hospitals. Stop threatening to tear up contracts to make it easier for you cut services and close hospitals". More...
January 14, 2002
Emergency room solution: Nurses are pleased with meeting with Minister
The union impressed on Colin Hansen that the contract between nurses and health employers does not stand in the way of developing a floating team of nurses to help open beds. More...
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