ICYMI There was a direct line of communication to Nova Scotia’s top brass in the provincial health care system at Community Healthcare Conversations in Yarmouth and Shelburne on Jan. 18. | SaltWire
Health and Wellness Minister Michelle Thompson talks with one of the people who attended the Community Healthcare Conversation in Shelburne on Jan. 18. The information, question and answer session was part of a series of community conversations across the province being hosted by Health and Wellness Minister Michelle Thompson, Deputy Minister Jeannine Lagassé, Nova Scotia Health interim CEO Karen Oldfield.
“This is our 18th community conversation,” said Minister Thompson at the Shelburne session. “We’re 16 months into our mandate and so we wanted to spend time going into communities talking to Nova Scotians, telling you what we’re doing because sometimes it's hard to get the message to you and then hear what your concerns are. Very often we’re going to meet in the middle."
Also, adding another fixed-wing air ambulance to handle routine transfers for tests and treatment between Sydney and Halifax and Yarmouth and Halifax will provide additional support, said MacConnell-Maxner. “We’re competing globally for physicians,” she said. “We are worked really hard with the college to shorten the bureaucracy, the red tape of it all to get physicians credentials more quickly so there are a number of things that are happening.”
The need for more funding to help people trying to get educated in the various health-care fields, changes in education to attract more young people to a career in health care and improved communications were among the suggestions brought forward at the session in Shelburne. "We have a brand new medical centre, but you can’t get an appointment there. When you call the recording says we are not currently taking appointments," the person said."We have no walk-in clinic. Shelburne is over an hour away from Yarmouth and over an hour away from Bridgewater. Roseway Hospital should be a regional hospital.”
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