Changes to Manitoba's Regional Health Authorities Act will enshrine the Progressive Conservative government's health-care overhaul in law, Health Minister Cameron Friesen announced Wednesday. Shared Health, the new organization co-ordinating health-care service in the province, becomes a provincial health authority under the new legislation, tasked with delivering provincial health services and developing a plan for clinical and preventative care. The operations of Health Sciences Centre and the Selkirk Mental Health Centre, as well as certain mental health programs provided by the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, will be overseen by Shared Health. The province announced the plans to streamline its administration of health care last June, and this legislation will enshrine those changes in law. 'More chaos' for system: unionOpposition leaders said Wednesday they're skeptical about the government's claims that the changes will lead to better health care in Manitoba.

Source: CBC News March 06, 2019 20:45 UTC