The program is inspired by doctors’ experiences in India. KINCARES involves training volunteers to visit people weekly in the final months of their lives and doing everything from making them tea to taking them for walks to ministering to their
N.S. will join several other provinces in licensing and employing emergency medical responders. The healthcare professionals will assist paramedics, help with hospital patient transfers and assist in offload areas in ERs. The first graduates are
The Healthcare Improvement Challenge asked healthcare providers and people with jobs connected to the system to make suggestions on ways to better N.S. healthcare. The ideas were narrowed down to a top 20 shortlist, which the public could vote on to
The Department of Health says two people already died this year, including a child under the age of nine and a person aged 10 to 59. Last year, there were 10 deaths in total, which represented a nearly 67% jump. At least two of these were children
At 35.3%, it’s the second highest rate in Canada, while the national average is 27%. N.B.’s disability rate is also increasing faster than anywhere else in the country - rising by 8.6% points between 2017 and 2022. Among the trends in the report is
About one year after a report warned no amount of alcohol is safe, N.S. is developing a campaign to inform people about the health impacts of drinking. The report suggested health warning labels on alcoholic beverages and also made a link between
A report shows approximately one in five adults worldwide consumed tobacco in 2022, down from one in three in 2000. In Canada, the decrease was even more significant, with tobacco use dropping from 28.3% of adults in 2000 to 11.4% in 2022. An
Officials with Nova Scotia Health believe they've identified 17,500 people who can be removed from the province's need-a-family-practice registry. They’re now calling them to confirm this information. The registry stood at more than 152,000 people on
The New Brunswick Nurses Union says people shouldn't be misled by a Nurses Association of New Brunswick report that 657 nurses were registered from Dec. 2022 to May to work in the province. Registrations aren't the same as hires, the union says. NBNU
The campaign, a collaboration between B.C.’s First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) and Vancouver Coastal Health, is focused on bringing attention to harm reduction, anti-stigma and grief and loss messages surrounding the toxic drug emergency. It