N.B. News: N.B. healthcare workers give their recommendations for ailing system [Video]

New Brunswick doctors, nurses, psychologists, nurse practitioners and other healthcare professionals have come together to create a plan to help the province’s ailing care system.

For some time, the system has been plagued by staffing shortages, long waitlists and wait times for those trying to access healthcare.

N.B. Nurses Union president Paula Doucet says the Blaine Higgs government hasn’t conducted “meaningful conversations” with those on the frontlines to see what they would recommend.

So, she says, they brought a report citing 23 recommendations to them.

“You haven’t had meaningful conversations with any of us. You’ve just gone off and made recommendations and investments where you think it’s a good place to do it right,” she said.

The union, along with the N.B. Medical Society and other professional organizations, held a news conference Tuesday to share those findings with the public.

Some of those recommendations include:

• Create 50 primary care clinics over the next two years
• …