The number of hours worked in the healthcare network has decreased by 5.9 million over the past five months, according to figures from Santé Québec.

These data, obtained exclusively by The Canadian Press, show that the vast majority of the decline in these hours concerned independent workers (IWs), at 3.7 million hours. There was also a decrease of 790,000 hours of mandatory overtime, and the number of regular hours fell by 1.3 million hours.

This represents hundreds of millions of dollars in savings ($293 million for the months of April, May, June, and July), the largest share of which is attributable to the network’s gradual divestment of private healthcare agencies.

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