CBC Manitoba: Audit’s advice for Manitoba health-care agencies surprising, ‘ridiculous,’ says health finance prof

Nursing positions tend to get cut after they’re flagged as taking up a lot of resources, says Dr. Sonia Udod, an associate professor at the University of Manitoba’s college of nursing. The audits show that health authorities failed to predict spending on private agency nurses, she said.

Udod says a potential cut to nursing positions would be a “huge problem,” as the university recently boosted the number of seats in its nursing program by 50 per cent.

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