Premier, health minister defend plan to improve emergency care in N.S.

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Claudia Chender, leader of the NDP, said the response from nurses and doctors bears out the party’s analysis immediately after the plan was released that it is “really unclear what difference these changes” are going to make.

“Ultimately, we need more beds and we need more nurses and these announcements didn’t go (on the) way to ensuring us that either of these things are going to happen and we didn’t hear much about retention,” Chender said. “The premier tried to brush aside the other day that we are losing nurses at an alarming rate but it’s true. Nurses are leaving practice because it is simply too stressful.

“We need to change the working conditions, we need more family practice, we need more nurses, we need more beds in hospital and these are chronic issues.””

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