As advocates for patients and for improved health care, BCNU members speak out regularly in the news media about their concerns. Here’s a sample of what they’ve been saying lately.

• Quality health care at risk - Comox Valley Record, June 22, 2010
• Public's right to question - Comox Valley Echo, June 11, 2010
• NRGH needs cleaners to be in the public sector - Nanaimo Daily News, May 31, 2010
• Nurses' process open, transparent - Letter sent to The Globe and Mail, March 18, 2009
• Health care; One-stop shop needed - Prince George Citizen, February 7, 2009
• Vote for public health care in elections - Cariboo Press, February 5, 2009
• Needle exchange offers many services - Prince George Citizen, October 22, 2008
• Why emphasize the minority of nurses who go wrong? - The Vancouver Sun, September 19, 2008
• Reasons for some nurses' problems not hard to find - The Vancouver Sun, September 18, 2008
• Private care shift bad for seniors. Times Colonist (Victoria) Fri 11 Jul 2008
• PM urged to renew injection site exemption. CanWest News Service Tue 22 Apr 2008
• Don't hold bake sales to build hospitals - The Vancouver Sun, April 21, 2008
• Nurses fear shortages in emergency areas Vancouver Island News Group - Thu 10 Apr 2008
• Hospital nurses remain under significant stress; Plans to address bed shortage at NRGH in limbo, according to union representative
  The Daily News (Nanaimo) Tue 08 Apr 2008
  
• News Report on Nanaimo hearings February 1, 2007 - Vancouver Island News Group Thursday, February 1, 2007
• B.C.nurses most often cite understaffing for poor care: Falls, infections and drug errors are a result, they say - The Vancouver Sun, December 12, 2006
• More than Band-Aids needed to move health care system into recovery room - The Vancouver Sun, Dec. 07, 2006
• Psychiatric patients 'fear for their safety' - Penticton Herald, Dec. 01, 2006
• ER at risk says union - Nanaimo News Bulletin, September 28, 2006
• Public reacts negatively to hospital announcement -Courier-Island (Campbell River), September 29, 2006
• Parking at the Hospital must be free - Abbotsford & Mission News, September 16, 2006
• Failure to Launch - Harbour City Star (Nanaimo), August 12, 2006
• Nurses available, but operating rooms at KGH remain idle - The Okanagan, Saturday, July 29, 2006
• Nurses ready ‘to crash' premiers' party - The Telegram, (St. John's NL)
  July 27, 2006
• Surgery backlog due to lack of beds, staff - Prince George Citizen,
  June 9, 2006
• Nurses' union blames IH for problems -Penticton Herald, May 31, 2006
• Nurses bash privatizing surgery - Nanaimo News Bulletin, May 27, 2006
• Nurses' union boss says plan "foolhardy, reckless" - Nanaimo Daily News, May 26, 2006
• Mission Hospital Cancer Study - CBC.CA News/Section Vancouver,
  May 25th, 2006
• Talk of bed closures worries union rep - Kamloops Daily News,
  March 29, 2006
• Short-staffing having a 'trickle effect' - Cowichan Valley Citizen,
  March 22, 2006
• Gag order still in effect for nurses - Trail Daily Times, March 22, 2006
• Nurses have solutions, need to be consulted - Castlegar News,
  March 22, 2006