URGENT CARE CENTRE HOLIDAY CLOSURE PROOF COCKRILL FAILING AS HEALTH MINISTER

REGINA GENERAL OVERCAPACITY A “VERY HIGH SAFETY RISK” ACCORDING TO INTERNAL SHA MEMO

REGINA – The Sask. Party is closing the Regina Urgent Care Centre during the busy holiday season because there aren’t enough doctors.

According to the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA), the centre will close to the public on December 25 and 26, 2025 and January 1, 2026 owing to “physician availability”.

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It is not immediately clear why the SHA issued the news release on Halloween, a Friday, and has done little since to warn residents of the December and January holiday closures as they quickly approach.

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“The Sask. Party has run so many doctors and nurses out of Saskatchewan that they can't even keep their Regina care centre open during the busy Christmas season,” said Meara Conway, Saskatchewan NDP Shadow Minister for Health.

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The holiday closures come as hospitals in all four major cities report long waits and dangerously high levels of overcapacity in their emergency departments.

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Worst by far is the situation in Regina, where the General Hospital was reported as being at a “very high safety risk” due to overcapacity, with wait times up to 91 hours according to the SHA’s own documents.

“Despite repeated promises that the urgent care centre would ease pressures on emergency departments, we’re seeing the opposite. The urgent care centre is hardly open, and Regina’s ERs are worse than ever, buckling under unprecedented pressures.

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“The Premier’s recent cabinet shuffle was a missed opportunity to put someone more competent in this critical role – someone actually prepared to listen to frontline healthcare workers. Instead, Scott Moe chose to keep his failing Health Minister.”

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The Sask. Party made 24-7 urgent care at their Regina facility a key campaign commitment. However, over a year has passed since the election, and the centre is still operating at reduced hours as the Sask. Party and SHA fail to staff it up.

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“A promise made, a promise broken – that’s Jeremy Cockrill’s 2025 in a nutshell,” said Conway.

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“And frankly, the Saskatchewan NDP is getting tired of saying ‘I told you so.’

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“The Sask. Party has broken our healthcare system, and they can’t be trusted to fix it. It will take big bold change, and a change in government, to get us moving forward again.”

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