The Conservative Health Critic says the dispute over a wage freeze for the province’s doctors has already done damage to New Brunswick’s reputation as being physician friendly. Margaret Ann Blaney’s comments come as the provincial Medical Society and the Graham Government have reached a settlement in principle. Blaney tells CHSJ news this never should have happened in the first place.
The doctors launched legal action when the government threatened to impose a two-year wage freeze. That came after the medical society had reached a tentative agreement with the province that was not implemented, but was ratified by the doctors. Blaney says both sides are now pretty much back to square one.
