A survey of health-care workers — such as paramedics, lab and imaging technologists, respiratory therapists and mental health clinicians — found workload, morale and staffing worsened last year.
The online survey was done by the Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals in December as a followup to a more extensive survey of members done in May.
Nearly two-third of respondents (62 per cent) in the latest survey stated they are doing more work now than at the beginning of the year, while only two per cent reported a decrease in workload.
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A graphic from a Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals survey shows more than half of respondents reported morale worsened last year.
More than half of respondents (59 per cent) stated morale worsened in 2024, compared with eight per cent who reported improvement.
Nearly half of respondents (48 per cent) reported their department or area lost staff members last year, compared with 11 per cent who said staffing had improved.
“Our recent survey results should be a wake-up call: much more needs to be done, and much more quickly, or Manitobans will continue to see negative impacts in high wait times for services like testing, emergency care, mental health and addictions support, and more,” association president Jason Linklater said in a news release Thursday.
The association represents more than 7,000 publicly employed health professionals working in more than 50 specialized disciplines in labs, clinics, hospitals, community and long-term care. It says it is Manitoba’s only public health-care sector without a new collective agreement, as the last contract expired March 31.
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