Nova Scotia offering health-care workers $1,000 prizes for easy, low-cost ways to improve system
HALIFAX, N.S. — The Nova Scotia government is offering $1,000 cash prizes for any health-care worker offering their ideas on improving the provincial health-care system.
Running until Nov. 22, the Healthcare Improvement Challenge is seeking ideas from workers in health-care fields and other jobs liniked to health care on ways to enhance the current system that would be easy to implement with little or no funding.
“We have no shortage of talented people who work across the spectrum of health care in our province, providing care to Nova Scotians every day,” said Premier Tim Houston. “They live and breathe the system daily, and many of them have great ideas that can improve health care for patients and for their colleagues. We want to hear those solutions and put them into action.”
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Eligible entries could win one of 50 $1,000 prizes through a random draw.
A review panel will select the top 20 ideas from all submissions and the public will then vote for the best 10 ideas, which the government would work with health-system partners to implement, where feasible.
More details about public voting will be announced after the top ideas are shortlisted.
