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 Q4 Progress Updates

• Registered nurses can now apply to participate in the province’s first internal travel nurse program, a pilot that will create a Nova Scotia Health travel nurse team to be deployed to emergency departments
• The QEII Halifax Infirmary expansion enters main construction phase, bringing Nova Scotians closer to a new, modern acute care tower with more beds and operating rooms and a larger emergency department
• People in Cumberland County will have improved access to emergency and dialysis healthcare closer to home with a redevelopment project at the regional hospital
• Nova Scotia opened a new centre that will see internationally trained physicians get licensed faster to practice in communities across the province
• A new pilot program is helping seniors in long-term care facilities and at home get access to more care faster, with nurses trained to prescribe medication for common ailments
• Nova Scotians with mood and anxiety disorders will have more access to mental healthcare at no cost through the province’s first mental health and addictions publicly funded insured services program
• People in need of mental health and addictions services will have more local support options with provincial funding to 23 community organizations

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