The New Brunswick health care system has received an overall grade of C which is similar to most other provinces in the country.
That result is from this year’s report card from the New Brunswick Health Council and CEO Stephane Robichaud asys there are two key areas of weakness including accessibility. Robichaud says we have an issue with timely accessibility.
“Our ability have access in a timely fashion – and one of the ways that’s measured is an access in 48 hours- we don’t compare very well to the rest of the country it’s an area where we need to improve,” says Robichaud.
Robichaud says we’re also not organizing our resources in order to deal in the most efficient way possible with our citizens. He says we have a higher rate than the country when it comes to the level of hospitalizations for a number of conditions.
“We also know we can improve in the appropriateness dimension in being more consistent in the application of screening, preventive type procedures, in order to improve in that area,” he says.
For the first time the council has released overall grades for the seven health zones in New Brunswick.
The worst grade in the province goes to the Restigouche zone which received a D and the best goes to the Moncton-South East zone which received a grade of B. Both the Fundy Shore-Saint John zone and Fredericton-River Valley zone received C grades.
