Official · Nova Scotia · Provincial
Michelle ThompsonMinister of Health and Wellness; Minister responsible for the Office of Healthcare Professionals Recruitment; Minister responsible for Healthcare Redevelopment
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- Party
- Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia
- Riding
- Antigonish
- Jurisdiction
- Nova Scotia
- Contact
- michellethompsonmla@gmail.com
Role as last recorded — rosters change between elections and cabinet shuffles; verify currency against the official source.
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Recent interventions
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DHW: NORTHERN INVERNESS AMBULANCE WAIT TIME CONCERNS - ADDRESS
As we've talked about in the House before, we have a dynamic system. The system is moving all the time toward areas where coverage is sparse because they are responding to other emergency calls. We start response to a 9…
2026-04-09House of AssemblyOfficial record ↗
DHW: COVERAGE FOR OUT-OF-PROV. MEDICAL SERVICES DENIED - ADDRESS
As I said, certainly we work very hard within our own provinces to provide care to individuals as close to home as we can and, certainly, in regards to cancer patients, as an example, 95 percent of people are able to rec…
2026-04-09House of AssemblyOfficial record ↗
DHW: COVERAGE FOR OUT-OF-PROV. MEDICAL SERVICES DENIED - ADDRESS
There are a couple things there. We do work hard in the Atlantic Provinces to work together, looking at ways in which we can support one another in terms of services. On a regular basis, the ministers - particularly from…
2026-04-09House of AssemblyOfficial record ↗
DHW: NEED A FAMILY REGISTRY NUMBERS BY REGION - RELEASE
Certainly we have done extensive work to validate the Need a Family Practice Registry. There was an announcement done on the 26th of January and we did commit that we would have an updated reporting form in April. There…
2026-04-09House of AssemblyOfficial record ↗
DHW: NEED A FAMILY REGISTRY NUMBERS BY REGION - RELEASE
No.
2026-04-09House of AssemblyOfficial record ↗
DHW: NORTHERN INVERNESS AMBULANCE WAIT TIME CONCERNS - ADDRESS
We are aware of the correspondence. Someone from the division of EHS has looked into the concerns of the individuals. The day - I think I was there maybe 18 months ago to talk to folks on the north side of the mountain t…
2026-04-09House of AssemblyOfficial record ↗
PREM.: PRIMARY CARE ATTACHMENT NUMBERS MISREPRESENTED - EXPLAIN
I won't go into a history lesson of what it was like working as a nurse under that NDP government or that Liberal government, because . . .
2026-04-08House of AssemblyOfficial record ↗
DHW: PATIENT WAIT TIMES AFFECTING PROPER CARE - ADDRESS
As I told the members opposite on probably 100 occasions, what's important is that they do not try and navigate with patients themselves. Sometimes, they don't have the right information. Patients have to register with t…
2026-04-08House of AssemblyOfficial record ↗
DHW: LACK OF MSI MEDICAL SUPPORT - DEFEND
We appreciate there are a number of individuals who sometimes choose to seek health care outside of Nova Scotia. We do have a policy we recently reviewed, and the qualifications to seek out-of-province care have been rev…
2026-04-08House of AssemblyOfficial record ↗
DHW: LACK OF MSI MEDICAL SUPPORT - DEFEND
We depend very heavily on our clinicians to assess and triage patients through the system. We do appreciate there are a number of foundational investments that have been made: not only in equipment, but also in staffing.…
2026-04-08House of AssemblyOfficial record ↗
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