The province is making progress to ensure Nova Scotians get faster access to health care.
Heart attack patients who call 9-1-1 will receive faster treatment as the result of new training by paramedics in Cape Breton.
Contracts have been awarded for another 95 of the more than 800 new long-term care beds being added to Nova Scotia's continuing-care system by 2010.
More than 500 more orthopedic surgeries will be performed over the next year as a result of a Department of Health-approved contract between Capital Health and Scotia Surgery Inc.