The New Brunswick Liberals are making health care a number one priority.
Leader Susan Holt says 180,000 New Brunswickers are without a family doctor.
They plan to create at least 30 collaborative care clinics to cut wait times.
Holt says this model allows teams of practitioners to work together on the same system to serve New Brunswickers.
“This represents an investment of $115.2 million with a portion of that going directly to the non-clinical care staff that we’re going to be adding to each of these clinics, who are going to make sure that our health care professionals can focus on patients and not paperwork. Some of that is going to go to the tools they need, to the spaces they need,” Holt says.
She says it’s not a one-size-fits-all model, it’s going to be flexible to recognize the different needs of the different communities in New Brunswick.
“Our team is listening, and we are going to put in place this collaborative model where multi-disciplinary practitioners get together and work together on the same system to serve New Brunswickers with the best health care possible,” Holt adds.
“Our community care clinics will bring together all those professionals, psychologists, registered nurses, people who want to contribute to the system today but are facing administered barriers.”
The Liberal leader says her party plans to also focus on incentivizing primary care to help make the model attractive for the people in the healthcare system today and for those they are hoping to recruit and encourage them to stay.
Holt adds the collaborative clinics will be established before 2028 if the Liberals are elected in October.
The next provincial election will take place on or before Oct. 21.
