Mr. Coon: The Minister of Health intends to privatize the food and cleaning services in our hospitals. When his department looked at this two years ago, it concluded that having a multinational corporation provide those services would be more expensive than providing them through hospital staff. Yet, according to the Telegraph-Journal, the department has given 30 days’ notice of the […]
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Fredericton – On Monday, April 21st the Government of New Brunswick announced the creation of a $300,000 pilot project designed to remove 2000 New Brunswickers from the physician waitlist. The New Brunswick Medical Society estimates that as many as 50,000 New Brunswickers are without access to primary care. “This project represents mere tinkering at the edges of the system and […]
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Mr. Coon: My question is for the Minister of Health. The minister is aiming to cut 10% of the budget of the Department of Health. This is supposed to be a strategic review, not an exercise in aiming for arbitrarily determined cuts. There are 50 000 New Brunswickers lacking a family doctor right now, yet the number of nurse practitioners […]
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Video and article at the CBC website Green Party MLA David Coon plans to press the provincial government during departmental budget estimates over changes to how methadone dispensing fees are paid to pharmacists. The provincial government paid $4.9 million in dispensing fees on behalf of 1,916 clients in 2013-14. That figure does not include people in methadone treatment, who […]
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