2005 Legislative Session: 6th Session, 37th Parliament


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ORDERS OF THE DAY -- Continued
No. 30 -- Thursday, March 10, 2005 -- 10 a.m.

Schedule C

PUBLIC WRITTEN QUESTIONS

 
(Date entered on the Order Paper: March 7, 2005)
 
  5  Adriane Carr, Leader, Green Party of British Columbia, to ask the Minister of Health Services, regarding the Minister's responsibility for BC Health Authorities, the following question: --

At the February 22 open board meeting of Vancouver Coastal Health in Powell River, the board revealed that there are 654 nurse vacancies in this health authority and an average wait time of 12 days for patients in hospital beds who need to be discharged to residential care that isn't available. How are the nurse vacancies and delays in discharging patients to community care affecting the emergency room and surgical wait times and what are the plans and timelines for the Ministry of Health to fill the nurse vacancies and provide the needed residential care?


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