{"id":470256,"date":"2026-02-12T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470256\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:27:08","slug":"premier-tony-wakeham-expresses-interest-in-creative-ways-nova-scotia-is-tackling-healthcare-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470256\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier Tony Wakeham Expresses Interest in \u201cCreative Ways\u201d Nova Scotia is Tackling Healthcare Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tony-wakeham-and-tim-houston-via-facebook.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Premier Tony Wakeham Expresses Interest in &quot;Creative Ways&quot; Nova Scotia is Tackling Healthcare Issues\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Via Tony Wakeham on Facebook.)<\/p>\n<p>When Premier Tony Wakeham met with Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houson last week, one of the big topics of discussion was healthcare. <\/p>\n<p>Wakeham says it was \u201camazing\u201d to hear some of the \u201ccreative ways\u201d they are tackling healthcare, and how they have been able to reduce the number of people without a family doctor. <\/p>\n<p>He says one of the ways they are doing that is through a partnership with one of their universities whereby provisionally licensed physicians get their complete certification a lot faster. <\/p>\n<p>Wakeham says he is \u201cvery interested\u201d in that program, noting that Houston has committed that if NL wants to join the program, they will make sure that seats are available. He says before that happens, they need to make sure the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons in both provinces are talking to each other. He believes that if someone is qualified to work in Nova Scotia, they are qualified to work here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Via Tony Wakeham on Facebook.) When Premier Tony Wakeham met with Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houson last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-470256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}