N.B. should halt transition to new virtual-health-care provider: Opposition Tories - BERITAJA

New Brunswick’s Opposition leader is calling connected the Liberal authorities to put disconnected the province’s planned displacement to a caller virtual-health-care provider.

Glen Savoie, leader of the Progressive Conservatives, says the authorities should reconsider the statement it signed pinch Foundever Assistance Services Corp.

He made the comments coming aft a section newspaper published a missive to the premier from concerned nurses who are raising questions about really the institution operates.

In the letter, much than 70 virtual-care nurses opportunity the Foundever level will not let them to supply the aforesaid level of attraction they now supply done the existing eVisitNB platform.

The letter, published yesterday successful the River Valley Sun, suggests Foundever’s by-appointment exemplary will drastically trim the number of patients who will person work connected a regular basis.

The New Brunswick authorities has already signed a two-year, $26-million statement pinch Luxemburg-based Foundever to supply virtual attraction starting July 1.

“They’re driving astatine 100 miles an hr towards a wall connected this and each we’re trying to do is opportunity pump the brakes, get this point right, and if you consciousness you can’t, get retired of it,” Savoie told reporters Friday.

The New Brunswick government, Foundever and the Nurses and Nurse Practitioners Association of New Brunswick were not instantly disposable for comment.