Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is cutting hospital spending 3%

Nova Scotia has told its district health authorities (DHAs) that it will cut their budgets three per cent next year.   The government already flat-lined DHA budget this year. The DHAs  deliver  health services in Nova Scotia, including hospital, community health, mental health, and public health services. Health and Wellness Minister Maureen MacDonald believes the budget cut presents an opportunity for the DHAs to improve efficiency through collaboration,  HealthEdition.com  reports. "We have to do things differently and ask whether duplicating programs and services across the province still makes sense.” The DHAs are less enthusiastic.  “We can never promise absolute lack of disruption to our patients, to our staff, services, and so on,” says Amanda Whitewood, the chief financial officer of the Capital Health District in Halifax. Her DHA has had to reduce its spending by $11.3 million or 1.4 per cent this year to compensate for the budget freeze and inflationary pressure