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Team Holt Announces Plan to Support and Recruit Doctors

September 24, 2024 • News

For immediate release

St Stephen, September 24, 2024 – Today in St.Stephen, Leader of the Liberal Party Susan Holt introduced her team’s plan to support and recruit doctors and tackle the healthcare crisis.

“Healthcare is the number one issue facing New Brunswickers today,” said Susan Holt, Leader of the New Brunswick Liberal Party. “Our province deserves better than what we’ve seen from Blaine Higgs. His government’s failure to support doctors and healthcare professionals has left 180,000 New Brunswickers without access to a family doctor.”

The Holt plan will:

  • Improve Physician Compensation: An overhaul of the physician compensation model to ensure fair pay, especially for those working in after-hours care. 
  • Expand Training and Residency Spaces: Working closely with Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick and the Centre de formation médicale du Nouveau-Brunswick to create more training and residency seats
  • Improve Foreign Credential Recognition: Streamlined process for foreign-trained doctors and healthcare professionals to have their credentials recognized, allowing them to contribute their expertise more quickly. 
  • Introduce innovative Recruitment Initiatives: Fostering a supportive work environment that includes a community care clinic model with administrative support to retain the doctors we have and bring more healthcare professionals to the province. 

The Holt healthcare plan also includes establishing at least 30 new community care clinics to help cut wait times and provide retention payments to New Brunswick’s hardworking nurses. 

“Unlike the Higgs government, which has spent hundreds of millions on short-term fixes like travel nurses, we have a healthcare plan to build a long-term, sustainable system,” Holt said. “Higgs has let our system collapse, but we will turn it around. We will bring more doctors here and we’ll support them to stay and to thrive in our communities.”

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Media Contact :

Pascale Paulin
Press Secretary
media@nbliberal.ca
(506) 866-3420