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Progress has stalled on adding new patients at two of the Holt government’s first batch of collaborative care clinics.
Province still has ‘a pretty steep hill to climb’ to attach all New Brunswickers, Holt says
Jacques Poitras · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 19, 2026 3:38 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt has made collaborative care clinics a centrepiece of her effort to improve access to health care. (Tara King-Stewart/CBC)
Progress has stalled on adding new patients at two of the Holt government’s first batch of collaborative care clinics.
Premier Susan Holt told reporters Monday that there has been only limited growth in patient attachment at the clinics in Tantramar and Lamèque since her last update in April.
Tantramar had attached 277 patients as of April, and because of space issues at that clinic, “we haven’t seen a lot of movement on that number as they get the space ready to move into,” she said.
Lamèque’s attachment numbers actually declined in the April update because of staffing turnover and a cleanup of the existing patient roster.
“They’ve had limited attachment at that clinic so far,” the premier said,
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