This is a page from the 2023 Prince Edward Island general election.
Health & Healthcare platforms
Here's what the candidates in District 27: Tignish - Palmer Road, and their parties, are promising.Access to abortion services
We don't have any PC policies on Access to abortion services.
NDP
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Fully-fund medical and surgical abortion services, and increase access across the Island, especially in rural areas
We don't have any Liberal policies on Access to abortion services.
Ambulance and emergency wait-times
PC
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Hire more physician assistants and nurse practitioners to provide Emergency Room care
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Make virtual care apps like Maple free
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Set up a task force to create a plan for reducing delays when offloading patients from ambulances
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Hire more care providers and patient advocates to provide waiting room support
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Provide up to $20k more funding to fire departments offering Medical First Responder services
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Add four full-time ambulances
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Provide free tuition for primary and advanced care paramedics who serve in PEI for two years
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Offer recruitment incentives for rural paramedic positions
NDP
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Hire physician assistants to ease pressure on regional hospitals
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Provide speical bonus funding for secure staffing at district hospital emergency rooms
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Create a publicly-owned agency to operate extramural emergency medical services
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Provide clear standards for the delivery of ER services and ambulance response times
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Expand Holland College's paramedic training programmes
Liberal
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Make the Premier in charge of healthcare for two years
Chronic pain
PC
We don't have any NDP policies on Chronic pain.
We don't have any Liberal policies on Chronic pain.
Dental care and optometry
Diabetes
PC
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Remove the age requirement on the Diabetes Insulin Pump Program
We don't have any NDP policies on Diabetes.
Liberal
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Expand funding for diabetes treatment
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"Expand funding for diabetes treatment so that Islanders have access to timely and affordable diabetes care" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22
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Drugs and addiction
Fitness and wellbeing
PC
We don't have any NDP policies on Fitness and wellbeing.
We don't have any Liberal policies on Fitness and wellbeing.
Gender-affirming care
We don't have any PC policies on Gender-affirming care.
NDP
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Provide and cover a full range of gender-affirming care services
We don't have any Liberal policies on Gender-affirming care.
Long-term care
PC
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Expand electronic medical records to manors and nursing homes
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Increase the monthly comfort allowance for residents in care
NDP
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Prioritise livable wages, stable work, and health and safety for long-term and home-care workers
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Improving living spaces, programming, and staffing for residents with dementia and severe impairment
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Require a standard number of daily hours of care for nursing home and community care residents
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Expand the scope of practice of personal care workers
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Invest in training programmes and incentives to address staffing shortages
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Push back on privatisation
Liberal
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Make the national long-term care standards mandatory
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Expand nursing care for treating dementia patients in public and private facilities
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Develop new expanded training programmes for long-term care
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Pay community care facilities and nursing care facilities the same for non-health services
Mental health
Natal care
We don't have any PC policies on Natal care.
NDP
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Legislate, provide certification for, and regulate integrated, publicly-funded midwifery services
We don't have any Liberal policies on Natal care.
Prescription drugs & pharmacare
Prevention and treatment
Primary care
PC
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Add 16 more Patient Medical Homes by the end of 2024
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Make virtual care apps like Maple free
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Add 100 new full-time positions supporting medical homes
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Create Mobile Primary Care Clinics
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Launch walk-in clinics led by nurse practitioners
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Attach all patients on the Patient Registry to a Medical Home within the next 2 years
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Expand the Charlottetown and Summerside Primary Care Access Clinics, and open new ones in West Prince and Kings County
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Allow people to access telehealth services at libraries and Access PEI locations
NDP
Liberal
Regional healthcare
PC
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Work with other Atlantic provinces to use vacant operating room times across the region for reducing surgery backlogs
We don't have any NDP policies on Regional healthcare.
We don't have any Liberal policies on Regional healthcare.
Rural healthcare
Senior at-home care
PC
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Provide $500/year rebates for home-based medical alert systems
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Add 50 new positions over 2 years to provide home care services and support for patients discharged from hospitals
NDP
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Prioritise livable wages, stable work, and health and safety for long-term and home-care workers
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Push back on privatisation
Liberal
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Expand the home-care budget
Seniors' health & services
Sexual and reproductive health
PC
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Provide access to free contraceptive care
NDP
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Invest in public education about sexuality, gender, consent, and sexual and reproductive health
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Fully cover contraceptive drugs and devices
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Provide comprehensive services for people with, or at risk of, HIV, including harm reduction and anonymous HIV testing
Liberal
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Later expand to fertility treatment
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Provide public coverage for prescription contraceptives
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"Increase investments in women’s reproductive health starting with public coverage for prescription contraceptives and expansion to fertility treatment funding" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22
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Speech and hearing
Staffing shortages
PC
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Make on-Island tuition free for RCWs, LPNs, and Paramedics who serve in PEI for two years, and provide bursaries for LPNs, RNs, and Paramedics who study off-Island
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Provide free licenses for returning healthcare workers who want to do casual or part-time work
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Guarantee that students studying in healthcare will get full-time positions the day after they graduate
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Legislate recognition of domestic and foreign RCW, LPN, and RN credentials
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Work with post-secondary institutions to help retrain RCWs as LPNs and LPNs as RNs, while keeping them at work
NDP
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Fast-track licensing of foreign-trained health professionals
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Hire physician assistants to ease pressure on regional hospitals
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Create a travel nurse programme
Liberal
Training more staff
PC
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Make on-Island tuition free for RCWs, LPNs, and Paramedics who serve in PEI for two years, and provide bursaries for LPNs, RNs, and Paramedics who study off-Island
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Guarantee that students studying in healthcare will get full-time positions the day after they graduate
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Start an Emergency Medicine Residency Program
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Work with post-secondary institutions to help retrain RCWs as LPNs and LPNs as RNs, while keeping them at work
NDP
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Fully-fund the new medical faculty at UPEI
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Expand Holland College's paramedic training programmes