New Democratic MHA Jordan Brown says he is please the auditor general will be investigating all contracts that public health authorities signed with private agencies.
Newfoundland and Labrador's auditor general will conduct a performance audit of health sector contracts including those of agency nursing operations to determine whether or not the province is spending its money most effectively.
The announcement arrives in the midst of an uproar in Newfoundland about the cost of travel nurses, who are hired from out of province by private, for-profit agencies
The Registered Nurses' Union of N.L. is appalled that the provincial government has added a clause to private-agency nursing contracts that prevents nurses from staying and working in Newfoundland and Labrador's public health-care system.