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|  Medical Society Says Remove the Cap on Physician Recruitment
September 2, 2010 (Fredericton)--The New Brunswick Medical Society is calling on all political parties to commit to removing the cap on the issuing of Medicare billing numbers and replace it with competitive incentive programs to solve the physician shortage.
"We need to recruit physicians now and we can't be hindered by an inflexible and restrictive billing number system," says Dr. Chris Losier, President of the New Brunswick Medical Society. "Every province in Canada is short of physicians and competition for a limited supply is fierce. New Brunswick's current policies, retained by successive governments since the early 1990s, put us at a tremendous disadvantage relative to other provinces in recruiting physicians."
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| NBMS President: Questions for Canadian Blood Services
Letter to: Mr. Ian Mumford, Chief Operating Officer, Canadian Blood Services
In New Brunswick there has been much uncertainty and public anxiety created as a result of the Canadian Blood Services (CBS) decision to eventually close the Saint John production facility and move the related services to a new facility that is being constructed in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Click here to view full letter
| It's Still Not About Beds....It's About People
In July 2004, the New Brunswick Medical Society (NBMS) launched a public awareness campaign, expressing our concern that the Government had vastly underestimated the impact of the bed cuts announced in the Province's 2004-2008 Health Services Plan. Click here for full story
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