Healthcare

Family doctors and primary care platforms

Here's what the 2024 NB election parties are promising.

Liberal

  • Establish at least 30 community care clinics to offer local, collaborative care

    "Establish and support at least 30 community care clinics that offer local, collaborative care from a variety of health professionals in one place when you need it." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

    "Provide dedicated non-clinical staff and administrative support to these clinics to ensure healthcare providers are focused on patients, not paperwork." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Improve the compensation model for doctors and primary care providers, including fair pay for performing after-hours care

    "Improve the compensation model for doctors and primary care providers, including fair pay for those who perform after-hours care." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

Green

  • Enhance doctors' practices with fully-funded collaborative team-based family practices

    "Give every New Brunswicker a permanent health care team in their community, by enhancing doctors’ practices with properly funded collaborative team-based family practices and expanding community health centres, including a funding model for nurse practitioners and other health professionals." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Expand community health centres
  • Create a funding model for nurse practitioners and other health professionals
  • Ensure primary care providers have adequate administrative support

    "Ensure primary care providers have adequate administrative support to free them from time-consuming paperwork so they can see more patients." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

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