Table
Province
New Brunswick
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Having a primary care provider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Has a primary care provider % | 2022 |
85.4
84.3 - 86.6
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Has a personal family doctor % | 2022 |
82.2
80.9 - 83.4
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Has a personal nurse practitioner % | 2022 |
3.6
3.0 - 4.1
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Does not have a primary care provider % | 2022 |
14.6
13.4 - 15.7
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Barriers in accessing health care services in the last 12 months | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Services not available in area % | 2022 |
24.3
22.9 - 25.6
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Unable to leave the house % | 2022 |
16.2
15.0 - 17.3
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Trouble navigating the health system % | 2022 |
21.7
20.3 - 23.1
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Had to travel over 100 kms/60 miles % | 2022 |
15.1
14.0 - 16.2
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Transportation problems % | 2022 |
6.3
5.5 - 7.1
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Difficulties experienced in getting virtual care | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Difficulties accessing a computer, tablet, or smartphone % | 2022 |
11.0
10.1
- 11.9
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Difficulties accessing high speed internet % | 2022 |
7.5
6.6
- 8.3
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Overall experience with health care services in the last 12 months | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Satisfaction with services received, very or somewhat satisfied % | 2022 |
55.5
53.9 - 57.1
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About this Table
Content and description
Data on self-reported information regarding New Brunswickers access to health care services and barriers in accessing the services. Topics include having a primary care provider, barriers to health care services as well as the overall experience with health care services.
Why it is important
The results from the Primary Care Survey allows the NBHC to inform citizens and health system stakeholders about the quality of primary health care services from citizens’ perspectives. This information can be used to make future improvements to primary health care in the province.
Availability of the data
The information for this data table is available at different geographical levels as well as by demographic groups. More information is available on our Primary Care Survey page.