Watchdog calls out New Brunswick health authority for refusing to release costly travel nurse contracts

New Brunswick’s Vitalité Health Network, which runs the province’s francophone public medical services, has no grounds to refuse to disclose to The Globe and Mail the contracts that it signed with private staffing companies, the province’s information watchdog has ruled.In a report released Friday, provincial Ombud Marie-France Pelletier said that Vitalité, the health authority which sparked a public uproar after it spent more than $100-million on travel nurses, had failed to provide specific evidence to support its decision to withhold records about those costs.