Progress Updates

With each quarterly update, we provide meaningful accomplishments and significant data points from the previous quarter, highlighting examples of the constant changes being made to the health system.

Progress Updates Dashboard

2024-2025 Q2 Action Updates:

• More Nova Scotians will soon have access to a community pharmacy primary care clinic closer to home with 14 new pharmacies joining the pilot program this fall
• It will soon be easier for Nova Scotians to search for health information and faster for healthcare professionals to find important health information about their patient, thanks to a new partnership with Google Cloud.
• Patients at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax will benefit from faster, more precise diagnostic imaging with the opening of a state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suite.
• Nova Scotians can access their health information anywhere, any time through the YourHealthNS app after the province expanded electronic health records access provincewide.
• More Nova Scotians will receive dialysis treatment closer to home with three new dialysis units coming to the communities of Springhill, Shelburne and Evanston, Richmond County.
• A new clinical psychology residency program – a first for Dalhousie University – is set to begin in the fall of 2025, funded by the Office of Addictions and Mental Health.

Public Reporting 

Interactive data dashboards, updated daily, provide information on the health services Nova Scotians use. Many different sources of data from across the health system have gone into the creation of these dashboards.

Daily Dashboard