Health committee  We had concerns raised as recently as November, when different facilities were trying to access supplies: masks, non-medical masks, medical masks from different suppliers, goggles and glasses, and visors. It seems to have settled out in the last few weeks, but as recently as Nove

Health committee  To comment on the experience in British Columbia, one of the major challenges we found is that our long-term care sector is fragmented in terms of who owns, operates and runs those facilities. If you were working in a long-term care facility that was owned and operated by a healt

Health committee  Yes. To build on some of the things we've already talked about around data collection, reporting and ensuring that we are working towards understanding what the whole picture looks like, the data that we've reported out and discussed today is largely related to compensated clai

Health committee  The causes of violence in the workplace are complex and shaped by factors across our social, health care and organizational systems when all of these are brought together in the context of care. Solutions require collaborative systems-based approaches involving organizations at a

Health committee  Thank you to the committee for this opportunity. My name is Georgina Hackett. I'm the director of health and safety for the Hospital Employees' Union.