Reports, Statistics and Accountability
At Nova Scotia Health Authority, we are committed to being transparent in our actions and use of resources and accountability for our decisions.
Here you will find a range of information covering corporate and program-specific strategies, business plans and financial documents, reports on many aspects of our performance, and regularly-updated information on subjects of interest to partners and the public.
If there's something you'd like to learn more about that is not included in one of the reports listed here, please contact wearelistening@nshealth.ca
Board of Directors Meeting Highlights
Board Hightlights:
- Board Highlights - May 22, 2019 (.pdf)
- Board Highlights - March 27, 2019 (.pdf)
- Board Highlights - January 23, 2019 (.pdf)
- Board Highlights - November 28, 2018 (.pdf)
- Board Highlights - Sept 19, 2018 (.pdf)
Board Committee Reports:
Business & Financial Plans and Reports
- Board Committee Reports
- Business Plans
- Financial Statements
- Nova Scotia Health Annual Reports
- Research and Innovation Annual Report 2020 (.pdf)
- Strategic Plan
CEO Reports
- CEO report - June 2022 (.pdf)
- Momentum for Health (.pdf)
- Momentum for Health - Timeline (.pdf)
Compensation and Expense Reporting
Corporate and Strategic Plans
- Accessibility Plan
- French Language Services Plan/Plan de services en français
- Health Services Planning
- Improving Wait Times and Making the Most of Our Resources to Support the Best Possible Surgical Care: Response to Office of the Auditor General Report – April 3, 2018
- Mental Health and Addictions Program Direction 2025: Program Plan 2019-2025. (.pdf)
- Milestones on our Journey - Transforming Mental Health and Addictions in Nova Scotia (.pdf)
- Patient Experience Strategic Plan Measures
- Physician Recruitment Strategy 2020/2023 (.pdf)
- Quality and Sustainability Plan (.pdf)
- Quality Safety Performance Framework 2021 (.pdf)
- Strategic Plan
- Strengthening the Primary Health Care System in Nova Scotia (.pdf)
Corporate and Strategic Reports
- Accreditation Reports:
- 2022 Report (.pdf)
- 2017 Report (.pdf)
- School Healthy Eating Programs in Nova Scotia – a provincial report (.pdf)
- Addressing Racial Injustice within Nova Scotia Health - May 2021 (.pdf)
- Board Highlights:
- CEO report - June 2022 (.pdf)
- Improving Wait Times and Making the Most of Our Resources to Support the Best Possible Surgical Care: Response to Office of the Auditor General Report – April 3, 2018 (.pdf)
- Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) Information 2016-2017 (.pdf)
- Milestones on our Journey: Transforming Mental Health and Addictions in Nova Scotia - Report Card (Feb. 2019) (.pdf)
- Nova Scotia Health Annual Reports
- NSHA Fact Sheet
- NSHA - Measuring Our Progress
- Patient Experience Survey Results:
- Quality Safety Performance Framework 2021 (.pdf)
- Research and Innovation Annual Report (2020) (.pdf)
- Talk About Health - Final Report August 2017
- Workplace Safety Progress Reports
- Yarmouth Area Cancer Services Review (.pdf)
COVID-19 Service Reintroduction Reports
Daily Dashboard
You can find the Action for Health public reporting information here.
Finding a Primary Care Provider Reporting
Current Report: The Need a Family Practice Registry report is now part of an online dashboard on the Action for Health website.
Previous reports:
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – February 2023
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – January 2023
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – December 2022
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – November 2022
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – October 2022
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – September 2022
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – August 2022
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – July 2022
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – June 2022
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – May 2022
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – April 2022
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – March 2022
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – February 2022
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – January 2022
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – December 2021
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – November 2021
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – October 2021
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – September 2021
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – August 2021
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – July 2021
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – June 2021
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – May 2021
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – April 2021
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – March 2021
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – February 2021
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – January 2021
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – December 2020
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – November 2020
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – October 2020
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – September 2020
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – August 2020
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – July 2020
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – June 2020
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – May 2020
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – April 2020
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – March 2020
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – February 2020
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia - January 2020
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – December 2019
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – November 2019
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – October 2019
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – September 2019
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – August 2019
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – July 2019
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – June 2019
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – May 2019
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – April 2019
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – March 2019
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – February 2019
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – January 2019
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – December 2018
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – November 2018
- Finding a Primary Care Provider in Nova Scotia – October 2018
- Need a Family Practice Registry Monthly Report – September 2018
- Need a Family Practice Registry Monthly Report – August 2018
- Need a Family Practice Registry Monthly Report – July 2018
- Need a Family Practice Registry Monthly Report – June 2018
- Need a Family Practice Registry Monthly Report - May 2018
- Need a Family Practice Registry Monthly Report - April 2018
- Need a Family Practice Registry Monthly Report - March 2018
- Need a Family Practice Registry Monthly Report - February 2018
- Need a Family Practice Registry Monthly Report - January 2018
Hip and Knee Action Plan
Nova Scotia Health Authority has a multi-year hip and knee action plan underway. Read more here.
Performance Measurements
- Cyclotron – Radiation Safety Public Information & Disclosure Program
- Healthier Together: 2017-18 Priorities Status Reports
- Nova Scotia Cancer Incidence and Survival Statistics Update (.pdf)
- Nova Scotia School-Based Immunization Coverage Reports
- 2018-2019 (.pdf)
- 2019/20 and 2020/21 (.pdf)
- NSHA Macro Key Performance Indicators - Full Fiscal Year 2016-2017 (.pdf)
- NSHA Macro Key Performance Indicators - Full Fiscal Year 2015-2016 (.pdf)
- NSHA Patient Experience Strategic Plan Measures
- Public Reporting on Patient Safety (External Site)
- Wait Times for Procedures and Services in Nova Scotia (External Site)
Physician Recruitment Reporting
Doctors Recruited Nova Scotia Health and IWK Health (April 1, 2022 - March 31, 2023)
| Zone | Family Doctors | Specialists |
|---|---|---|
| Central | 28 | 51 |
| Eastern | 13 | 21 |
| Northern | 13 | 7 |
| Western | 24 | 11 |
| Total | 78 | 90 |
| Total | 168 | |
Historical
Doctors Recruited (April 1, 2021 - March 31, 2022)
| Zone | Family Doctors | Specialists |
|---|---|---|
| Central | 30 | 33 |
| Eastern | 14 | 18 |
| Northern | 13 | 14 |
| Western | 18 | 23 |
| Total | 75 | 88 |
| Total | 163 |
Doctors Recruited (April 1, 2020 - March 31, 2021)
| Zone | Family Doctors | Specialists |
|---|---|---|
| Central | 19 | 31 |
| Eastern | 9 | 13 |
| Northern | 8 | 15 |
| Western | 13 | 19 |
| Total | 49 | 78 |
| Total | 127 |
Doctors Recruited (April 1, 2019-March 31, 2020)
| Zone | Family Doctors | Specialists |
|---|---|---|
| Central | 26 | 36 |
| Eastern | 11 | 15 |
| Northern | 7 | 10 |
| Western | 14 | 9 |
| Total | 58 | 70 |
| Total | 128 |
Doctors Recruited (April 1, 2018-March 31, 2019)
| Zone | Family Doctors | Specialists |
|---|---|---|
| Central | 31 | 39 |
| Eastern | 11 | 12 |
| Northern | 6
|
10 |
| Western | 10 | 11 |
| 58 | 72 | |
| Total | 130 | |
| April 1, 2017 - March 31, 2018 | |
|---|---|
| Family Doctors | 38 |
|
Specialists |
65 |
|
Total |
103 |
| April 1, 2016 - March 31, 2017 | |
|---|---|
| Family Doctors | 43 |
|
Specialists |
68 |
|
Total |
111 |
*We only report physicians who are currently hired and working. We are currently working through the various stages of the hiring process with additional family doctors but they will not be officially reported until they begin seeing patients.
Vacancy Summary
Current to March 31, 2023
|
|
Family Doctors |
Specialists |
|---|---|---|
| Central Zone | 30 | 34.32 |
| Eastern Zone | 17.4 | 17.7 |
| Northern Zone | 23.3 | 9.5 |
| Western Zone | 25.33 | 12.8 |
|
Total
|
96.3 | 74.32 |
To reflect most accurate current need, these vacancy numbers do not include pending retirements or vacancies approved with a delayed start date. In August 2018, vacancy reporting began including Central Zone Emergency Department vacancies which had previously been unreported.
Tender Notices and Awards
- Nova Scotia Tender Notices (External Site)
