News releases from Health and Wellness (Page 1)

A new electronic system will enhance quality of care in long-term care facilities across Nova Scotia.

Tous les Néo-Écossais sont encouragés à recevoir le vaccin contre la grippe, même les bébés âgés de six mois.

All Nova Scotians over six months old are encouraged to get a flu shot.

Two new public health physicians are now practising in Nova Scotia.

Government is funding nine new specialist positions.

Four Nova Scotia high schools will pilot a new model for youth health centres.

Fifteen new spaces will be added to Dalhousie University’s specialist residency program.

Minister of Health and Wellness Randy Delorey has appointed an expert advisory panel to look at ways to improve the quality of long-term care in Nova Scotia.

This September, 11 more public schools will provide students with a healthy, nutritious start to their day.

Access to naloxone and treatment, shorter waitlists and wait times, and more funding for community-based harm reduction are among key government actions and investments completed in the first year of the Opioid Use and Overdose Framework.

More support is coming for Nova Scotians living with an acquired brain injury.

La bonne santé des enfants avant la rentrée scolaire inclut la vaccination.

Helping children stay healthy as they head back to school means making sure immunizations are up to date.

Government is investing more than $4 million to support family doctors to communicate with patients by telephone and through e-health services.

Construction has started for a new dialysis unit at the Valley Regional Hospital in Kentville.

Government is increasing access to HIV prevention medication by adding it as a benefit under provincial Pharmacare programs effective Monday, July 23.

A new incentive program and additional seats at Dalhousie University will help ensure Nova Scotia has the nurse practitioners it needs.

The delivery of the QEII redevelopment project and the recently announced CBRM Health Care Redevelopment Plan will be led by a new division of Nova Scotia Lands, a Crown entity that focuses on major construction and remediation projects.

Four orthopedic surgeons have been recruited to improve care and help more Nova Scotians receive hip and knee replacements.

Sites have been selected for new family medicine residency spaces in Nova Scotia, an important component of the plan to provide more Nova Scotians access to a family doctor.