Member Statement (6 December 2022)

From Hansard (6 December 2022)

Expansion of Recruitment Incentive for Health Care Workers

Mr. Keisig: — Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Recruiting health care professionals is a challenge that communities across Canada and the rest of the world are facing. The difference is that Saskatchewan has an aggressive four-point action plan to recruit, train, incentivize, and retain over 1,000 more health care workers to communities across our province.

Today I am very pleased to announce expanded eligibility for the recruitment incentive of up to $50,000 for hard-to-recruit positions. This incentive was put in place to target nine priority health care professions, including nurses, lab technicians, and other positions required to stabilize services that people living in rural and northern communities rely on.

Eligibility for the incentive has been expanded to include individuals who have completed an education program for one of the nine health care professions while working for the SHA [Saskatchewan Health Authority] or for an affiliate in the health care system, just like the nurses present here today, Mr. Speaker.

Our government remains committed to restoring health care services in communities across the province, and the expanded eligibility for this recruitment incentive reflects our commitment. Thank you to the Health ministers and all their staff for all the hard work in this file. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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