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As moves are made to create one health authority to cover all of Saskatchewan, Health Minister Jim Reiter believes health care in the province can improve through the changes.

“This is a consolidation of management and governance, it’s not a consolidation of the front-line health care,” Reiter said Wednesday. “If we do this properly, you will see no difference or hopefully some improvements.”

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Most provinces have reorganized governance and management of their health regions in the past number of years, he noted.

The intent is that there will be no job loss among front-line health-care workers.

“Patient care is No. 1,” Reiter said. “We don’t want this to impact patient care. This is about reorganizing and consolidating governance and the boards and management.”

Currently, there are 12 health region CEOs and 62 vice-presidents.

“How the new management structure will look, we’ve got some work to do there yet,” Reiter said. “Obviously though, there’s no way to sugar-coat it, there will be some management positions eliminated.”