April 5, 2023 | Sydney, Nova Scotia | Health Canada

Through Budget 2023—A Made-in-Canada Plan, the Government of Canada is making investments that may assist a stronger center class, an reasonably priced financial system, and a wholesome future for Canadians. Canada’s financial progress was the strongest within the G7 over the past yr, and in the present day, 830,000 extra Canadians are employed than earlier than the pandemic, together with 28,100 in Nova Scotia.

Today, the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Health and Mike Kelloway, Member of Parliament for Cape Breton – Canso, joined President and Vice-Chancellor of Cape Breton University, the Honourable David C. Dingwall to satisfy with nursing college students at Cape Breton University (CBU) and spotlight Budget 2023’s investments to strengthen public well being care and assist well being staff throughout the nation. The go to additionally highlighted the essential actions of CBU to assist tackle well being care challenges, together with their lately introduced Medical Campus which is able to improve medical coaching capability and enhance entry to household well being providers in Cape Breton. 

To strengthen Canada’s common public well being care system, Budget 2023 highlighted the federal government’s plan to offer near $200 billion over 10 years, which incorporates over $5 billion to Nova Scotia for well timed entry to a household well being staff or supplier, a sustainable well being workforce, higher entry to high quality psychological well being providers, and making certain sufferers have entry to their very own digital well being data.

Helping Canadians age with dignity, nearer to house, with entry to house care or care in a protected long-term care facility is one other shared precedence the place collaborative work is already underway.

Canada’s well being staff are the spine of our well being care system, however they’re at the moment experiencing unprecedented challenges, which is why Budget 2023 contains funding to higher assist them. Together with provinces and territories, work is underway to enhance situations for well being staff in order that they will preserve doing what they do finest – holding sufferers wholesome.

Personal assist staff (PSWs), for instance, take essential care of individuals and need to be pretty paid. Budget 2023 contains $1.7 billion over 5 years to assist hourly wage will increase for these staff and associated professions. To assist extra well being staff work in Canada faster, we’re additionally working with provinces and territories and different well being companions to streamline international credential recognition for internationally educated well being professionals and advance multi-jurisdictional credential recognition in order that well-trained well being care professionals can work wherever there’s want throughout the nation.

The Government of Canada continues to assist medical doctors and nurses with our investments, together with initiatives just like the enlargement of the Canada Student Loan Forgiveness program for medical doctors and nurses who work in underserved rural or distant communities.

With these vital investments in Budget 2023, and the continuing work with provinces, territories, and well being companions, we’ll proceed to assist well being staff and our public well being care system as they’re important to our well-being—and are an essential basis of a rising, wholesome financial system.