Voters gave Tim Houston a big to-do list: fix the health-care, housing and climate-change crises and pull us out of the pandemic. How’s he doing? In the next week we’ll look at the Tory government’s record at the one-year mark.
The promised solution was instant access to telehealth virtual care for everyone on the wait-list for a primary care provider and a recruitment and retention commitment centred on valuing health-care providers through improved salaries for family physicians and increased local decision-making.on Sept. 1, 2021, in upper-echelon health administration in the province that included the removal of Dr.
The Houston government has also created new temporary licences so graduating paramedics can start working in their field sooner, instead of waiting for a licensing exam, and it has hired 180 transport operators for routine transportation needs, freeing up paramedics for emergencies. - Tim Krochak / The Chronicle Herald
"It’s possible that people voted for Tim Houston because they wanted a change, because Iain Rankin ran a terrible campaign, because people weren’t ready to give government to the NDP,” Turnbull said. “The parties are pretty close psychologically and he ran a great campaign and he gave people a real option but is he going to have to pay for the fact that he’s not a miracle worker who is going to be able to deliver a family doctor to everybody.
To help alleviate nursing problems, the government has offered jobs to every nurse who graduates in Nova Scotia and has added 200 nursing seats for students across the province. “One thing that he is going to wear is that Nova Scotia was setting world records for its management of COVID-19 and now it’s not,” Turnbull said. “Some people might be really thinking about that and others not so much because their personal circumstances haven’t been as much affected by it. Since he’s really put his brand on health care, it might be difficult for him to manage this on COVID management.
The PCs had also promised to establish a $500 seniors care grant for those living independently to help with household services, a commitment the government met in December. The Nova Scotia Loyal program is in the prototyping phase but the paycheque guarantee is still in the works.
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