Liberal leader Stephen McNeil is disappointed and frustrated that Nova Scotians waiting for orthopedic surgery have to wait even longer under this NDP government, as shown in recent wait times information released by the Department of Health.
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Liberal Health Critic Leo Glavine is condemning the premier and the NDP government for its broken promise to parents and autistic children to double the budget of the Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention (EIBI) pre-school program.
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Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil is calling on the government to immediately provide additional resources to the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre to help reduce unacceptable wait times and increase access to necessary counseling and support services.
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Liberal MLA Leo Glavine is pleased with government’s decision to reimburse widows’ benefits since 2009 for those with spouses who died on the job.
MoreAs Nova Scotia observes World Autism Awareness Day, Liberal MLAs Karen Casey, Kelly Regan and Leo Glavine say young people with autism and other special needs are bearing the brunt of the NDP government’s deep cuts to public education and other services.
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Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil is asking government to listen to Nova Scotians and finally announce a publicly funded insulin pump program.
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Liberal MLA for Dartmouth East Andrew Younger says the Dexter government is trying to buy its way into the next election with a sudden $2 million spend on knee and hip replacements.
MoreLiberal leader Stephen McNeil says Liberals will fund insulin pumps and continue to support Nova Scotians with diabetes.
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Liberal health critic Leo Glavine says three advanced care paramedics with 45 years of experience have left Windsor for greener pastures.
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Liberal health critic Leo Glavine says the province must bring an end to the number of paramedics leaving our province for greener pastures.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the province’s recently released report on reductions in surgical services in Inverness proves there is a communication breakdown between DHAs and hospitals, especially those hospitals in rural communities.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the Dexter government is standing idly by while tax dollars meant for health care are being spent to subsidize money losing Tim Hortons locations in Capital Health.
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Buoyed by a letter from veterans’ advocate Bernie Currie, Liberal MLAs Harold “Junior” Theriault and Zach Churchill have pushed the province’s Veterans’ Affairs committee to examine the substandard food being served at a veterans' nursing unit in Pictou.
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Liberal health critic Leo Glavine says he is pleased the Dexter government has expanded access to Lucentis, finally listening to the demands of wet AMD sufferers and the Liberal opposition.
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Liberal health critic Leo Glavine says the Dexter government is dragging its heels on the promise it made in the spring throne speech to expand access to Lucentis coverage across the province.
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Liberal MLA Karen Casey says Minister of Health Dave Wilson needs to explain how the new Colchester East Hants Health Centre will be able to function with fewer beds in November than the current hospital, which is now operating at or over full capacity.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says he is pleased the NDP government has adopted a Liberal proposal to help solve the problem of chronic ER closures that are plaguing Nova Scotia.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says more Nova Scotians are waiting longer to get diagnosed by specialists in Nova Scotia since the Dexter government took office in 2009.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says Premier Dexter must step in, correct the mistakes made by his community services minister, and restore Talbot House’s funding without forcing them through a flawed RFP process.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the emergency room at Soldier’s Memorial is closed again due to doctor shortages while the NDP government of Darrell Dexter continues to ignore Liberal solutions that would bring more doctors to our province.
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Liberal community services critic Kelly Regan and Glace Bay MLA Geoff MacLellan say Premier Dexter needs to step in, correct the mess created by his community services minister and her department, and restore Talbot House funding.
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Liberal health critic Leo Glavine says the government’s inaction on regulations relating to pharmacists’ expanded scope of practice dealing with administering vaccines could lead to delays in administering whooping cough vaccines.
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Liberal health critic Leo Glavine says the Dexter government is attempting to solve a problem that does not exist by opening a collaborative centre in Twin Oaks, an emergency room that has had zero hours of ER closures and is in an NDP held riding.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says he looks forward to discussing the benefits of developing a locum list for the province with the new health minister Dave Wilson.
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Liberal health critic Leo Glavine is demanding the Minister of Health and Wellness correct his statements the Pancreatic Islet Transplant and to reconsider the drug coverage requests from Amber Robichaud and Blaine MacDonald currently before government.
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Liberal health critic Leo Glavine is holding a community meeting tonight to discuss possible ways forward after recent deaths in the Annapolis Valley stemming from prescription drug and methadone abuse.
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Liberal MLA for Glace Bay Geoff MacLellan is demanding clarification from the Minister of Health and Wellness around his government’s intentions when it comes to the future of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Glace Bay Hospital.
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Kings West MLA Leo Glavine is expressing concern that the frequency of ER closures at Soldier’s Memorial is increasing and the NDP government is not addressing the problem.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says our province faces a financial crunch as we continue to age and the province offers no real job or immigration solutions.
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Liberal health critic Leo Glavine says the province’s much delayed mental health strategy fails to provide adequate resources to ensure Nova Scotians get the mental health care they need.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the Dexter government’s physician resource plan supports Liberal bills to increase the number of doctors available in Nova Scotia.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the Dexter government’s policies led to the cancellation of 18,083 in Capital Health without the patients ever finding out.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the Liberals introduced three bills in the legislature today that would increase the number of doctors available in underserviced communities in Nova Scotia.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil is renewing his caucus’s call for the Dexter government to fund insulin pumps.
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Dartmouth East Liberal MLA Andrew Younger says the Dexter government has admitted the planned expansion at Dartmouth General will have no impact on wait times or the shortage of beds for the foreseeable future.
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Liberal health critic Leo Glavine says that the Dexter government’s delayed mental health strategy shows a lack of concern for the 20 per cent of the Nova Scotian population suffering with mental health issues.
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Liberal health critic Leo Glavine says that the elimination of afterhour emergency surgery in Inverness is unacceptable and proof that the Dexter government’s freeze on health care spending is impacting patient care.
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Andrew Younger, Liberal MLA for Dartmouth East, says that he welcomes the Dexter government’s funding announcement for the Darmouth General, but it comes years too late and will do nothing to address overcrowding there over the next few years.
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Liberal health critic Leo Glavine tabled a petition through which 3,241 Valley residents spoke out against changes made to the operations of the Berwick Clinic.
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Liberal Health and Wellness critic Leo Glavine is requesting the Minister of Health and Wellness update Nova Scotians as to when the province’s Mental Health and Addictions Strategy will be released.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil is urging the NDP government to use the excess capacity available at the Dalhousie Medical School to fully fund the training of doctors who would practice in under-serviced communities in Nova Scotia.
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Yarmouth MLA Zach Churchill is demanding the NDP government produce evidence of who was consulted about respite bed reductions and why it is acceptable that Yarmouth be targeted to lose its only respite bed available at Tideview Terrace.
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Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil said it appears the NDP government made another secretive change to the health care system that will impact the well-being of many Nova Scotian families.
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Geoff MacLellan, Liberal community services critic, said NDP attempts to cut medical services for disabled Nova Scotians is unacceptable and distasteful.
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Diana Whalen, Liberal health and wellness critic, says that it is unacceptable that emergency rooms were closed for 18,920 hours in Nova Scotia.
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Liberal health critic Diana Whalen says the NDP government should stop preventing local patients from accessing Lucentis through a retinal specialist in Cape Breton.
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Regan, who represents Bedford-Birch Cove, said Nova Scotia "has the highest rate of sexual assault and some of the lowest charge, conviction and sentencing rates in Canada."
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"Leo Glavine, the Liberal health critic and MLA for Kings West, was the one who sounded the alarm bell last month."
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"Liberal health critic Leo Glavine says the Nova Scotia health system needs to report E. coli cases more quickly."
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Nova Scotia Liberal leader Stephen McNeil responds to an opinion article by John Malcom in the Cape Breton Post regarding health care reform.
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An interview with Nova Scotia Liberal leader Stephen McNeil in the Yarmouth Vanguard regarding health care in Nova Scotia.
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"The walls need to be broken down so we can build a stronger, more accessible health care system for all Nova Scotians."
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"Some - such as provincial Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil - have said the province should just restore Talbot House's funding."
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Dexter should simply restore Talbot House's funding "without forcing them through a flawed request for proposals process."
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"The fact of the matter is there is too much money being spent in administration," said Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil. "We need to reduce the health boards from nine to one, and one for the IWK.
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MLA for Kings West Leo Glavine in the King's County Register
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"The fact of the matter is there is too much money being spent in administration," said Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil. "We need to reduce the health boards from nine to one, and one for the IWK.
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Nova Scotia Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil featured in the Chronicle Herald discussing the need for insulin pump funding for children with Type 1 diabetes.
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Nova Scotia Liberal health critic Diana Whalen says Cape Breton patients shouldn't have to travel to receive injections of a drug to counter vision loss.
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Controversy over a family doctor shortage in southwestern Nova Scotia is making its way to the floor of the provincial legislature.
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Carolyn White can't wait for January to arrive. That's when she will be eligible for a drug that could help undo the damage of 10 years of wet age-related macular degeneration now that the province has announced it will fund the expensive medication.
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With few exceptions, politicians are not medical specialists. Rather, we are advocates for those who need assistance, balancing that job with fair constructive approaches to public health policy.
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