“Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Christine Elliott will meet next week with Ontario nurses to talk about staff shortages. The meeting with Cathryn Hoy, provincial president of the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA), is set for Feb. 3. A date was set on Tuesday after the ONA said on Twitter that the Ontario government turned down a request for a meeting on Monday. […] Hoy said she would like to talk about the nursing shortage in Ontario because it is now acute. The meeting comes as the pandemic accelerates a longstanding trend of nurses leaving the province or leaving the profession altogether due to a number of factors. ‘The numbers are dwindling every single day. And it’s very frustrating that the government isn’t stepping up and wanting to do something about it. It’s not going to be fixed overnight. It’s not. But if we work together, we could come up with some solutions,’ said Hoy, whose organization represents 68,000 nurses and health-care professionals and 18,000 nursing student affiliates. ‘I talk to nurses every day that are saying, ‘I’m retiring, I’m quitting, I’m going to another career.’ We’re in trouble. I have never seen the situation so dire,’ she said. ‘It’s past the critical point.’ “

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