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Care First: New Brunswick's Doctors strategy for improving our health system and its sustainability
 
Are you walking further than your fridge? Are we hard at work in our province, training the next generation of Alberta’s doctors? And isn’t our health care system really just a sick care system? These are the questions doctors are thinking about right now. New Brunswick's doctors have launched a plan to change the health care system. For doctors, it starts with focusing on who we’re here for and why we should care. It’s about Care First.  Care First focuses on four themes and the specific steps we need to take – right now. We need to fix primary care, by using electronic medical records and ending billing numbers that prevent doctors from working where patients need them. We need to fix wait times, by paying hospitals differently and providing seniors with better options for care. We need to listen to front line professionals by involving them in decision-making throughout the system, rather than keeping them out. And most importantly, we need to focus on the health of New Brunswickers, to move from a sick care system to a health system.

Presenter:

Dr. Lynn Hansen is an anaesthesiologist at the Dr Everett Chalmers Hospital. She is also the 138th President of the New Brunswick Medical Society, the organisation that represents the 1600+ physicians across the province. She is also a past president of the York-Sunbury-Queens District Medical Society and has lived in Fredericton with her family for over twenty years.