Breaking news: Nova Scotia Health Department rolls out plan to deliver emergency care quicker | SaltWire
Health Minister Michelle Thompson answers questions from reporters during a June news conference. -Ryan TaplinHALIFAX, N.S. — The Health Department rolled out a plan Tuesday to improve emergency care to ensure people with the most urgent needs receive care first.
The plan to improve emergency care will ensure people with the most urgent needs receive care first. It will improve ambulance response times and offer more places for people to receive care, easing pressure on emergency departments. A day earlier, Charlene Snow died at her Donkin home after leaving a busy Cape Breton Regional Hospital, seven hours after arriving, without seeing a doctor for a sore jaw and flu-like symptoms.
There were 558 emergency department deaths last year, the highest annual total in the last six years and more than 43,000 people left the ER without being seen by a doctor last year.
The government will provide support for new and existing collaborative family medicine practices so they can see more patients, expand services in more pharmacies, add hours for virtual care appointments and enable out-of-province doctors who are licensed here to offer virtual care.
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