Reports & Research
Here are some of the reports that the Health Coalition and our allies have released on the state of health care in Nova Scotia and Canada.
Legal opinion: National Standards in Long-term Care
In March 2021 the NS Health Coalition along with the Manitoba Health Coalition, Friends of Medicare (Alberta), the Ontario Health Coalition, the PEI Health Coalition, the Health Coalition of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Canadian Health Coalition and Canadians4LTC released a legal opinion from Steven Shrybman, one of Canada’s leading public interest lawyers.
This legal opinion laid out what national standards would be necessary to improve LTC across Canada and the nature and extent of federal authority to introduce and enforce national standards.
2017 Alternative budget
We were one of the lead contributors to the health section of the 2017 Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Nova Scotia Alternative Provincial Budget.
Read a fully-costed take on what changes could make a big difference in the lives of Nova Scotians.
P3 Report
In October 2019, along with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - NS, we co-released a report on the plans to use so-called “P3” contracts to redevelop the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax. These secretive and costly private financing and maintenance schemes cost more, deliver less and are shrouded in secrecy.
The impact of federal funding changes on Nova Scotia's Health care System
In December of 2016 Nova Scotia's government agreed to a catastrophic bi-lateral funding deal with the federal government which will deprive Nova Scotia of almost $1 Billion dollars in funding over the next decade.
Along with our allies at the Canadian Health Coalition, the Ontario Health Coalition and the provincial and territorial health coalitions across Canada we released a report detailing the real cost of this inadqauate funding arrangement.
Digby Area Health Coalition
Our friends at the Digby Area Health Coalition released two damning reports on the state of health care in their community in May 2017.
The first report details the impact of neglect by the health care system on the lives of community members and tells heartbreaking stories of isolation, unnecessary pain and uneven access to care.
The second report gives a detailed account of why doctors are leaving rural communities and is based on exit interviews with physcians who left the area after being recruit to practice in or near Digby.