'Medical leadership crisis' identified by review into Regina hospital physician culture

A reappraisal into workplace civilization for doctors astatine Regina's hospitals has identified immoderate of the ways it doesn't enactment work-life satisfaction, diligent attraction oregon recruitment efforts.

The report, released Monday, revealed precocious levels of distrust betwixt the Saskatchewan Health Authority and doctors, and an inability for affirmative changes to beryllium made to code "numerous examples" of unprofessional behaviour among physicians.  

"The themes that the reviewers mentioned successful their recommendations are not caller to us. We person heard them from our members," said Dr. Pamela Arnold, the president of the Saskatchewan Medical Association. 

"We've heard these concerns earlier and we're committed to moving to marque them better," said Arnold. 

The aesculapian relation volition beryllium moving with the Saskatchewan Health Authority to effort and alteration the existing civilization and rebuild spot with the SHA. 

"It's astir gathering that narration from the ground," said Dr. Jordan Wingate, interim main aesculapian serviceman for the SHA. He said that determination on the line, the narration "dropped."

Wingate acknowledged that determination is simply a batch of enactment to bash going guardant and "it volition beryllium a challenge." 

"It would person been large if it was a glowing report, but it was not," said Wingate. "We person to judge that and we person to ain that."   

The report, which was commissioned by the Minister of Health, makes 14 recommendations to amended the moving environment. These are targeted astatine the Ministry of Health, the Saskatchewan Health Authority, the Saskatchewan Medical Association and the University of Saskatchewan's assemblage of medicine.

One of the themes moving done the reappraisal is the effects of the enactment of the Saskatchewan Health Authority successful 2017, which brought the determination wellness authorities into a azygous governance model.

The reappraisal besides identifies doc disengagement and a "medical enactment crisis" successful the Regina country arsenic contributing to a problematic culture.

Out-of-province doctors brought successful for review

Dr. Nancy Merrow, from Ontario, and Dr. Douglas Sinclair, from Nova Scotia, conducted the review, which was launched successful December 2024 amid complaints of misconduct, struggle and racism.

At that time, Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill said issues wrong the doc assemblage and civilization successful Regina person been longstanding.

Back successful November 2023, a radical of 11 interior medicine specialists astatine Regina General Hospital filed a ailment with the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission alleging absorption gave sought-after teaching shifts exclusively to achromatic doctors.

Their lawyer said they had made their concerns known to the curate of wellness successful May 2023 and to the Saskatchewan Health Authority successful June.

The study authors noted they "were not tasked to comment" connected anterior reviews and investigations, "including immoderate ineligible proceedings and filings with the Human Rights Commission."