Nine Virtual Urgent Care stations are up and running at hospitals around N.S. The facilities are meant for low-acuity patients with problems such as coughs, colds, sprains, ear infections or UTIs. Doctors who are working from home or even from…
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Ottawa will spend $52.9 billion more than planned over the next five years and will post a $40-billion deficit this fiscal year. To offset some of that spending, the government will generate roughly $21.9 billion in new revenue coming in part…
The homes will provide people with overlapping mental health challenges, developmental disabilities, addiction issues, trauma and/or acquired brain injuries the care they need where they live. Healthcare and social support teams work alongside…
The health authority’s goal is to get wait times for patients triaged as being Level 3 or urgent down to 120 minutes or less this year. The Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale calls for Level 3 patients to be seen by a doctor…
While nearly 410,000 people were connected to a physician since 2018, another 310,000 remain on the Health Connect Registry. The province will introduce digital tools within the system to better link patients with family physicians and NPs. An…
Canadians’ opinions about their provincial healthcare systems didn’t improve in 2024 compared to last year. As in 2023, the Ipsos poll found less than half are satisfied with their provincial healthcare system, with only 8% saying they’re very…
Researchers found Canada’s burden of disease increased in substance abuse, diabetes/CKD and musculoskeletal diseases and found the improvement in overall health of the…
The agreement, reached with private long term care operators, will include opening 54 beds, increased wages for workers in private facilities to move towards wage comparability with the public sector and grants and financing programs to support…
Community groups will assist the N.S. government to open walk-in mental health centres for young people across the province by 2027. Youth aged 12 to 25 will be able to drop in for mental health and addictions counselling and other services…
Some doctors say the dramatic drop in wait times for hip and knee surgeries had a ripple effect on other types of surgeries, including cancer surgeries which are now double pre-2023 waits. They claim to prioritize cancer surgeries, many elective…
Hundreds of thousands more British people a month will have to option to refer themselves for services such as assistance with incontinence, podiatry or hearing tests without needing to see their family doctor. Across the country, around 200,000…
The NHS is investing in rapid testing technology to identify, diagnose and cure thousands of people unknowingly living with hepatitis C. Liver scanning and portable testing units will be deployed in communities where patients are at high risk of…
Statistics Canada says the population of N.B. surpassed 850,000, up from 800,000 in 2022. The report indicates three-quarters of the province's population growth was from interprovincial migration. The remaining 25% growth was made up of…
The three provinces are partnering to build addictions treatment systems focused on recovery, instead of safe supply. To start, they’ll share policy ideas to manage the addictions crisis. Critics are denouncing the Alta. government’s refusal of…
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA), MD Financial Management and Scotiabank established the $10-million Health Care Unburdened Gran…
The pilot project, in partnership with Ambulance New Brunswick, is said to be reducing the time to below the national standard. Taking place at Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital in Fredericton, the project changed the average time from…