Premier Bernard Lord and Health and Wellness
Minister Elvy Robichaud released the four-year Provincial
Health Plan, Healthy Futures, on
June 9, 2004.
Since then, Healthy Futures is bringing
health care as close as possible to where people live and
work, by moving our health care system toward more community
based delivery models for primary
health care, such as collaborative practices and community
health centres. And it means providing more services at the
community level and in the home outside the more expensive
hospital settings.
Once Healthy Futures is fully implemented,
$125 million of new investments in new and enhanced services
will be added to the base funding of the health system. This
is above and beyond the additional funding that is required
to maintain existing services.
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“The
Provincial Health Plan provides a roadmap to meet
our health care needs. It sets out for all New Brunswickers
to see, a four-year health care plan to secure our
province's health care system and make it sustainable
into the future.” |
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