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Patients and nurses are feeling the squeeze of staffing shortages—but they don't feel free to talk about it

By Brishti Basu
May 19, 2022

Shortages have meant overworked staff, a slide in patient care, and even temporary hospital ward closures

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UPDATED: Greater Victoria hospitals considering hotels for patients as capacity limits reached

By Brishti Basu
April 25, 2022

An unannounced COVID surge is blending with ongoing staff shortages to create an “extreme overcensus situation” in local hospitals, weeks after COVID measures and regular data sharing were scrapped

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How Saanich Peninsula's Shoreline Medical Society has been fighting the doctor shortage

By Emily Fagan
February 11, 2022

The practice has grown from five doctors to 25 in five years

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Westshore drug users are suffering in silence: harm reduction worker

By Zoë Ducklow
January 27, 2022

'If you deny that the need is there, then you'll never build the services and you'll never see it.'

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'Double barrel crisis': Treatment for Greater Victoria adults with eating disorders cut back despite increased demand

By Brishti Basu
December 14, 2021

Island residents south of the Malahat only have one government-funded option for ED treatment, but come January 2022, those services will be scaled back dramatically

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A government agency was supposed to protect her finances. Instead, she was left ruined

By Tori Marlan
November 10, 2021

A mentally ill woman's finances were put in the care of the Public Guardian and Trustee of BC. She's worse off because of it

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BC’s surgery wait times are still rising, while a Victoria company says private facilities have a part to play

By Jolene Rudisuela
September 15, 2021

Private care has been touted as a solution to surgery wait times. But some say it could be at the cost of public health care

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Metchosin’s fire department doesn’t hear about all emergency calls within their area anymore. Here’s why

by Aaron Guillen
April 27, 2021

Residents and fire chief urging the Ministry of Health and BCEHS to reconsider the current dispatching system