The Nova Scotia government has launched a new website that allows people to track the province’s health-care data.
The province says the Action for Health website is the first if its kind in Canada.
The data had previously been available internally, but will now be shared publicly on a regular basis.
The site will share daily metrics, such as the number of emergency department visits and hospital occupancy percentages.
The province says other metrics, such as ambulance offload times and doctor recruitment numbers, will be updated regularly as data becomes available.
“Our healthcare system is complex, and pressure in one part of the system impacts all the others,” said Health and Wellness Minister Michelle Thompson in a news release Friday.
“Change won’t happen overnight. But by sharing this information now, we are holding ourselves accountable to make sure change happens and the system improves in the areas most important to Nova Scotians.”
Progress on the province’s four-year plan to improve health care is also available on the website.
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