The leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick and the MLA for Fredericton-South, David Coon, believes city hospitals are operating over capacity with inadequate staffing and blames this on the use of a fiscally-driven healthcare system, rather than a patient-centred system. Coon states that a more decentralized system would be better equipped to respond to local priorities rather than a one-size-fits-all approach from a central authority. He brings up the importance of the New Brunswick Health Council’s community health assessments.
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