Nova Scotia Health Coalition

Formed in 1996, the Nova Scotia Health Coalition’s (NSHC) goal is to stop the privatization of the public health care system, ensure high levels of care, and create a forum for people and communities to discuss issues in health care.

We are a coalition of local health committees, community groups, organized labour, faith groups, women’s organizations, students, and individuals dedicated to protecting and extending public health care to include services like pharmacare, dental care, long-term care, mental health care and home care.

The NSHC is political but non-partisan and receives no government funding.

Canadian Health Coalition

The Nova Scotia Health Coalition is one of nine provincial health coalitions across the country. Along with our allied provincial coalitions and national organizations representing seniors, faith groups, trade unions, women’s organizations, students and more, we form the Canadian Health Coalition.

Founded at the SOS Medicare conference in 1979, with Tommy Douglas as the keynote speaker, the Canadian Health Coalition is Medicare’s watchdog. We work across the country to protect, strengthen and extend public health care so that no Canadians goes without the health care services they need.

Together, public healthcare supporters and activists across the country are working to improve access to healthcare, hold politicians accountable, and demand a better world for everyone.

Allyship Statement

The Nova Scotia Health Coalition’s goal is to protect and improve the public health care system for the citizens of every community in Nova Scotia. To achieve this goal, NSHC commits to work with diverse community-based organizations across the province, including organizations representing communities that are marginalized or under-represented because of racialization, discrimination, inequity, or minority status, specifically African-Nova Scotian and Indigenous communities, as well as LGBTQ+ communities, people with disabilities, immigrants, and others.

NSHC is committed to serving as an ally to such communities by supporting and advocating for their healthcare issues, concerns, and priorities.

NSHC is committed to facilitating communication between NSHC and such communities. NSHC strives to be well informed about the healthcare issues, concerns, and priorities of such communities, to create opportunities for dialogue and discussion, and to include their voices and perspectives in all of NSHC’s work.

NSHC is committed to the process of allyship, which focuses on building relationships based on respect and trust. NSHC recognizes that such communities have the right and the ability to identify their healthcare issues, concerns, and priorities, to propose their own solutions, and to lead the struggle to protect and improve the provision of healthcare in their communities, with the support of NSHC in accordance with its own organizational principles and values.