Eastern Health
Capital Coast Health Survey Appendix B Single most important issue facing health and community services
Strained work force Surgery wait times and cancellations Taking care of the nurses Tests should be more readily available. CT scans/MRIs The ability to get a doctor and the wait time. The availability of doctors - too many patients for each doctor The availability of doctors in emergency room The availability of having testing done when you need it The correct care for senior citizens and injured workers The doctors and the nurses are dissatisfied and everything just escalates from there. Doctors and nurses are overworked. Health care is not what it used to be. Doctors don't just become Doctors. It's a monetary thing now. The government needs to provide more funding and keep our graduates in the province. The hospital system - emergency department - surgery etc. The hospitals are understaffed The insurance covering the services The lack of home support for elderly The lack of Nurses skills and Facilities for a different type of health problems for example Children diagnosed with Autism that are aggressive etc. The lack of specialists and the wait time to see a specialists The lack of staff all around The long wait in emergency and long wait in surgery and waiting time for scans etc The long wait time for results The long wait time in the hospitals because of lack of doctors The long wait time to get in for tests The long wait times for tests and surgeries The long waits for appointment times The nurses are not given the credit for what they are. Shortage in nursing. The nurses should go back to a 8 hour shift because 12 hour shifts are too long The overall availability of Specialized resources The pending nurses strike The problem getting a family doctor The quality care in the hospital The quality of the services. The health care staff is very overworked The resources - with the number of patients sent home there is not really enough care to look after these patients The response in the emergency room at a hospital and the wait list for Specialists The services are getting bad because of the shortage of nurses and doctors The shortage of nurses and fear of strike The situation with the nurses and specialist leaving the province
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