"13 top ranking executives with Interior Health Authority earning over $200 thousand dollars per year" ... average salary is a quarter million dollars

Public sector salaries in government Crown Corporation and Agencies continue to rise across the province -- including within the Interior Health Authority (IHA). 

News out today shows that there are currently 13 top ranking executives with the Interior Health Authority now earning over $200 thousand dollars per year. 

The lowest is making in excess of $218 thousand dollars a year ... the highest, over $355 thousand.  These executives are making a combined total of $3.3 million dollars a year. 

While all this happen, Premier Christy Clark continues to enjoy her taxpayer funded photo-op tour of the province making announcements of 'far-in-the-future' projects that will never see the light of day. 

The Interior Health Authority, responsible for Royal Inland Hospital, has overseen the closure of a fully equiped operating theater, hundreds of beds, the reduction of front-line workers, and a never ending litany of 'emergencies' within its' own ER. 

In recent weeks, we have had ER Doctors on the record saying just how bad things are.  The emergency room, and the hospital, regularly runs at over 100% capacity. 

I have heard from one person after the other praising doctors, nurses, and other front-line staff for making a valiant effort under what has to be extremely trying conditions.   How can the staff of RIH perform their duties when the ER is continuing overcapacity, and patients have beds in hallways. 

The latest Public Sector Salary Report now shows the Interior Health Authority with a total of 26 hundred and twenty two (2,622) people in administrative roles -- that for 18,500 doctors, nurses, and other front line workers.


The IHA seems to have a need for one person in a management role, to supervise every 7 people actually trying to deliver quality healthcare here in Kamloops.

In 2001, when the BC Liberal government came to power, health care spending in BC was $235 above the national average -- we are now $200 below the Canadian average.  We have less nurses per capita, we have a serious shortage of doctors here in the Kamloops area, and through-out rural and Northern BC, and we have aging facilities such as Royal Inland Hospital. 

We need to spend smarter -- we need to take a hard look at how we can provide more front line staff and workers -- and we need to ensure that our facilities in Kamloops are the best they can possibly be. 

BC Conservatives are serious about campaigning on substantive issues.  In the days and weeks leading up to the May 14 general election, we will be announcing specific policy proposals to address the real concerns of regular, everyday British Columbians. 

Let's 'stay sharp' Kamloops.

I'm Peter Sharp -- I'm a BC Conservative -- and I believe in BC.

NOTE:

• Interior Health Authority salary details, and the number of people in management, were obtained from The Vancouver Sun’s public-sector salary database. 
• This information may be accessed at http://www.vancouversun.com/business/public-sector-salaries/INDEX.HTML