Rebuilding Trust in Healthcare

Dedicated frontline staff did their utmost working in a stressful environment while dealing with countless managers and supervisors in a bureaucracy resistant to change.
Our government put forward a number of great initiatives in Budget 2022. For instance:
• $2.2 billion to build health facilities.
• $100 million to expand hospital capacity & ICU beds.
• $64 million towards EMS. And
• $23 million to Alberta’s 911 system.
Budget 2022 also calls for an addition of 850 new full-time positions at AHS but under the same ineffective management, is this the best use of public resources? With Alberta’s health system being the most expensive in the country, it is clear that higher levels of spending does not translate to better results.
One does not leave a struggling system to continue struggling; however, without meaningful interaction with frontline workers, fundamental change will be difficult.