Gov should also publish its definition as part a methodology note that should accompany the dashboard.

Without these details, the public is being asked to trust a number it cannot independently reproduce. #nbpoli

If 619,354 represents 70.2%, the Holt government is working from a denominator of about 882,100 Medicare-covered persons.

In the spirit of openness and transparency, government should publish that denominator explicitly. #nbpoli

Oh boo 🤬hoo. Another Trumper in the dumper, losing to a Canadian university.

#nbpoli #cdnpoli #TrumpRegime
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They aren't interested and have 200 million reasons to walk away. #nbpoli

...the timing is interesting. Five days before the AG releases a performance audit of the government's collaborative-care clinic expansion, the Premier & Health Minister hold a news conference to unveil a new way to measure attachment and highlight the growing number of attached patients. #nbpoli

...says formal patient rostering, made possible b/c doctors receive financial rewards tied to attachment in the new deal, is somehow revolutionary for providing data to run a $5-billion department. I question the notion that billing couldn't provide attachment rates. I also find... #nbpoli +

Access to Virtual Care NB is more confusing than eVisit, with online bookings limited to prescription renewals. Everything else? Call 811. Not the same service as before. Availability is not same-day for francophones like it is for anglophones. #nbpoli

Asked about Virtual Care NB, the Premier responds, not the Health Minister. Holt says "we're getting to a point of meeting the need in the system" & "the service has improved...reached a point of that saturation point" meaning recruiting enough NP/Nurses. #nbpoli +

A bit cheeky: a chart showing a slightly increasing line. It's a count of attached patients, not the attached % of Medicare cardholders. Holt Gov changed the denominator from pop. to cardholders, which I think is fine, but I'm not sure, as I don't have pop w/out a card. #nbpoli +

I wrote back in May about the need to count attachments vs. clinic announcements. The %s were worse then, even worse today. Recent clinic announcements make it clear that the Holt Government is not prioritizing clinics based on unattached data. #nbpoli + thomjeffwrites.substack.com/p/count-the-...

Attachment is lower overall, with Zone 3’s figure materially higher under the new method, but the capital region still sits at the bottom. #nbpoli +

🚨The attachment rate is 70.2%, down from the Holt Government's last reported KPI of 73%.

That's 3% worse & is likely what the AG will report next week.
This is a PR campaign to spin ahead of bad news coming next week. #nbpoli +

When I visit my doctor, they ask for my Medicare card. When I go to Horizon for an X-ray, they ask for the card and confirm my physician.

When I visit my doc, they ask for my Medicare card. When I go for an X-ray, they ask for the card & confirm my physician #nbpoli

After a long preamble about a like for data, Holt says patient attachment will be done using Medicare data. Like WTF?

What took so long? Well, Holt says it's thanks to the new physician services agreement. None of this makes any sense given they always billed medicare. #nbpoli +

Holt giving a patient attachment update today, on heels of so-called ‘new’ clinic announcements.

At first, I thought makes sense on announcements until I saw scope of AG report. It can’t be good.

I’ll update this post on clinics next week: thomjeffwrites.substack.com/p/count-the-... #nbpoli

“It feels like a shakedown,” says private college co-founder of NB’s new security requirement.

Students already pay into a protection fund holding $9.9 million. Why require colleges to provide up to $160,000 more, especially when we need the people they train? #nbpoli substack.com/@thomjeffwri...

Two states have officially enacted sweeping statewide pauses, while at least 15 states have aggressively pursued or voted on statewide pauses in some form.

Meanwhile, Holt Liberals launch weakest consultation: a text box.

Tell us you’re going ahead with Lorneville w/out telling us. #nbpoli