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On November 5th, 2024, the New Brunswick Health Council (NBHC) publicly released an article on youth mental health leveraging the results from the 2023-2024 edition of the New Brunswick Student Wellness and Education Survey. The…

The New Brunswick Health Council (NBHC) publicly released an article on patients’ experience with hospital care in New Brunswick leveraging the results from the 2023 edition of its Hospital Acute Care Survey. 

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The New Brunswick Health Council (NBHC) publicly released an article regarding access to primary care in New Brunswick leveraging the results from the 2023 edition of its Primary Care Survey as well as other sources.

On October 25th, 2023, the New Brunswick Health Council (NBHC) publicly released the results from the 2022-2023 edition of the New Brunswick Student Wellness Survey.

This survey is conducted on an annual basis in all public…

The following observations are drawn from the results of the grades 6 to 12 survey, with a special focus on mental health and substance use.

On October 25th, 2023, the New Brunswick Health Council (NBHC) publicly released the results from the 2022-2023 edition of the New Brunswick Student Wellness Survey.

This survey is conducted on an annual basis in all public…

On September 20th, 2023, the New Brunswick Health Council (NBHC) publicly released a report that captures what was heard during the various citizen engagement activities conducted as part of the Patient Voices Network.

The New Brunswick Health Council (NBHC) has a mandate to report publicly on the performance of the health system. As part of our public reporting obligations, the NBHC is producing materials with contextual information regarding…

On June 21st, 2023, the New Brunswick Health Council (NBHC) publicly released the results from the 2022 edition of the Primary Care Survey.

The NBHC Primary Care Survey is a population-based survey. Conducted on an annual…

In New Brunswick, 85.4% of citizens have a primary care provider, either a family doctor (82.2%) or a nurse practitioner (3.6%).

Only 1 in 3 citizens who have a primary care provider can get an appointment within 5 days,…

On May 24th, 2023, the New Brunswick Health Council (NBHC) published a Web page on health spending based on the latest available data (2020) from the National Health Expenditure (NHEX)  tables published by the Canadian Health…

Provincial Health Plan: New Brunswick Health Council’s Primer on Access to Primary Health Care

The New Brunswick Health Council (NBHC) has a mandate to report publicly on the performance of the health system. As part of our…

The New Brunswick Health Council releases first quarterly progress report on the Provincial Health Plan

On December 13th, 2022, the New Brunswick Health Council (NBHC) released its first quarterly progress report on the…

With the objective of informing citizens about the health and well-being of their communities, the New Brunswick Health Council (NBHC) has released Population Health Profiles for the 33 communities and 7 Health Zones in the…

On September 21st, 2022, the New Brunswick Health Council (NBHC) released key observations regarding the results from the 2021-2022 edition of the New Brunswick Student Wellness Survey. This Survey is conducted on an annual basis…

Providing care in non-traditional settings, such as home care services (HSS), is indispensable to ensuring the viability of the health care system and to supporting older citizens to age independently at home and in their communities…