The Honourable John Haggie, Minister of Health and Community Services, will announce an enhanced service to the existing 811 HealthLine to improve access to primary health care tomorrow (Thursday, June 11).

Charlene Brophy, Chief Executive Officer with Fonemed and Kevin Hillier, Chief Information Officer with Fonemed will join Minister Haggie. Fonemed is a local telehealth and triage solutions company which provides the 811 HealthLine service.

The availability will be live-streamed starting at 11:00 a.m. on the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Facebook and Twitter accounts – @GovNL and on YouTube.

As a safety precaution, all media covering the availability will join by teleconference only. To participate, please RSVP to Jillian Hood (jillianhood@gov.nl.ca) who will provide the dial-in details. Media planning to participate must join the teleconference at 10:45 a.m. (NDT) to be included on the call. For sound quality purposes, media calling in are asked to use a land line if at all possible.

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Media contact
Kathy Dicks-Peyton
Health and Community Services
709-729-6986, 699-1982
kathydickspeyton@gov.nl.ca