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Premier Susan Holt says her record spending on health care is starting to bear fruit, but progress isn’t moving as fast as she would like.
Premier says there have been ‘bumps’ with rollout on data, but the model is starting to work
Jacques Poitras · CBC News
· Posted: Apr 29, 2026 3:17 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago
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Susan Holt’s Liberals have budgeted a 17 per cent increase in health-care spending this year over last year. (Chad Ingraham/CBC News)
Premier Susan Holt says her record spending on health care is starting to bear fruit, but progress isn’t moving as fast as she would like.
She told a Wednesday news conference that the collaborative clinics her government has announced so far are about one-third of the way to adding the 17,000 patients they are intended to.
A Fredericton North clinic has added 1,155 patients out of the 1,600 goal, while one in Tantramar has added 277 of the 1,000 expected.
The clinic in Lamèque, meanwhile, is down 73 patients because the switch to digital records revealed that many patients on the roster had moved away or died — though Holt said she still expects it to remove 3,700 people from wait lists over three years.
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