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Moncton, NB — April 24, 2025 — The New Brunswick Health Council (NBHC) released an article highlighting the access and experiences of New Brunswickers with home care services. According to the results of the 2024 Home Care Survey, once New…

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, and this proportion…

  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 cycle, its…

In Brief 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 for…

People with a disability are more likely to have complex health needs, which leads to an increase in demand for different types of services.

The Population Health Snapshot is a representation of the health of the population, at a given point in time.

In a universal health system like the one in Canada and New Brunswick, the primary care provider is the first point of access.

Consistently over time, every person born in New Brunswick has been expected to live longer on average (life expectancy at birth), compared to previous generations.

While reporting results for the province gives a broad idea about how New Brunswick performs overall, when we look at each region or community separately, we see that local values may vary greatly from the provincial ones.

New Brunswick has high rates of heart disease and stroke. We looked at the risks for each of N.B.'s 33 communities.

Barriers to service, including timely access to appointments, are negatively affecting New Brunswickers’ experiences with family doctors; ER visits and more according to the New Brunswick Health Council (NBHC). With the release of Being Patient…

The 2016 Report Card from the NBHC shows certain elements of primary health and long-term care continue to push NB health system grades downward. As a result, the NBHC has awarded in 2016 the overall grade of “C”, which signifies health system…