Prior to the election, Scott Moe promised that the Urgent Care Centre in Regina would offer healthcare services 24/7, but due to major failures from the government to hire staff, the centre operates from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. and is regularly forced to cut its hours even more due to staffing shortages. Staff at the centre have told Carla Beck’s team that anyone turning up at the centre after noon on any given day is unlikely to receive care before closing.
Still, despite this major failure, the Saskatchewan government issued a new request for proposals last month looking for a qualified consulting firm to “undertake a feasibility study to assess the potential development of an In-Hospital Urgent Care Centre (UCC).”
“Scott Moe and Jeremy Cockrill are far more interested in giving the appearance that they’re fixing healthcare, rather than actually fixing healthcare,” said Carla Beck. “From what we can see, wait times at Regina hospitals are worse than ever — the Urgent Care Centre hasn’t helped one bit. They can’t staff it, they can’t keep it open and still, they’re trying to open another — this time inside a hospital. How is that going to solve anything?
“Through the Your Care, Your Say project, our team has conducted the largest Saskatchewan healthcare consultation in a generation, speaking to more than 1,000 people and not one person said more urgent care centres was the answer.”
An October 2025 staffing schedule for the Regina Urgent Care Centre, provided to Beck’s team through a freedom of information request, showed less than half the required staffing shits were filled.
There is no indication that Scott Moe has a plan to address the staffing shortages at the Regina Urgent Care Centre either. His bad news budget this year only gave healthcare a 0.3 per cent funding increase, even less than the total increase in funding from the federal government health transfer.
“Our healthcare system is in complete shambles after 20 years of failures by the Sask. Party,” said Jared Clarke, Shadow Minister for Rural & Remote Health. “Instead of trying to fix healthcare, this new request for proposals is nothing but a political stunt.
“Saskatchewan people don't need a government trying to save face, they need a government that is trying to save patients.”
Moe launched a Patients First healthcare plan earlier this year — but it is nearly a carbon copy of a similar plan released three times previously dating back to 2009 that the Sask. Party failed to deliver on.
“What we have heard from Saskatchewan people is they believe in public healthcare, they believe it can be fixed, but they no longer trust the Sask. Party to get the job done,” Clarke said.
“Our message to Saskatchewan people is you deserve better. You don’t have to settle for more Sask. Party publicity stunts and stale health plans. Not only is change possible, it’s on the way.”
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Minister of Rural and Remote Health Cites Placeholder Funding In Out-Year Budgets, But Records Show No Such Amounts Exist
YORKTON – Scott Moe and the Sask. Party either don’t have a clue on the costs or completion timeline for the desperately needed new Yorkton Hospital — a project the government promised to deliver 14 years ago — or they’re willfully hiding those details from the public.
Yorkton, Swift Current, Moose Jaw And Prince Albert All Saw Job Losses
REGINA – Saskatchewan saw significant job losses in the month of July according to data released by Stats Canada today, impacting communities across the province, while youth unemployment climbed to over 12 per cent.