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Liberal Health Platform [top] |
| Pass "Commitment to Medicare Act," making two-tier medicare illegal. |
| Create an independent agency, called the Health Standards Council, to track delivery of medical services. |
| Give provincial auditor the authority to audit all health-care agencies. |
Set limits for waiting times, starting with cardiac care, cancer care, joint replacements and MRI/CT scans. |
| Stop privatizing MRI/CT clinics and expand public MRI and CT services. |
| Invest in home care, taking first steps to make it an essential part of medicare. |
| Create 150 family health-care teams with doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists and other health care professionals; teams would be available to patients around the clock. |
| Add generic drugs to drug formulary as soon as they're approved. |
Ban ER closures and open 1,600 beds to relieve pressure on ERs. |
| Provide guaranteed multi-year funding for hospitals. |
| Create Seniors Strategy by: cancelling Tories' 15-per-cent increase in nursing home fees; setting high standards for nursing homes; strengthening home care and support for seniors' centres; include seniors health in training. |
| Invest in community mental health agencies and increase supportive housing options. |
| Increase the number of family doctors by increasing quality of working life through family health teams. |
Make medical tuition more affordable, and provide loan forgiveness for those choosing family medicine. |
| Remove barriers preventing qualified foreign-trained doctors from practising in Ontario. |
| Hire 8,000 nurses, with a goal of 70 per cent working full time. |
| Accelerate development of the Northern Ontario Medical School and Windsor's medical satellite campus. |
| Create Family Medical Leave Act, allowing six weeks of unpaid leave to care for a family member. |
| Take preventative measures to promote healthy living. Strategy includes mandatory daily physical education in schools, support for community sports and recreation, and an aggressive anti-smoking strategy. |
| Provide vaccination to prevent chicken pox. |
| Make Chief Medical Officer of Health an independent officer. |
New Democratic Party Health Platform [top] |
| Create Patients' Bill of Rights and Health Care Standards Commissioner, ensuring health money "goes to patients, not tax cuts." |
| Full and immediate implementation of the Romanow Report. |
| Stop expansion of private MRI and CT clinics, diverting funds to public system. |
| Stop private-public partnerships the Conservatives are using to build hospitals, as in Brampton and Ottawa. |
| Extend universality to long-term and home-care sectors. |
| Create 100 new community health centres and expand existing ones (part of Romanow's primary care reform). |
| Reduce tuition for medical school. |
| Create more full-time nursing jobs, nurse practitioners, and a more "nurse-friendly" environment.
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| Streamline accreditation of qualified physicians from other countries. |
| End privatization of home care, but support independent living. Return Community Care Access Centres to community control. |
| Keep long-term care cost increases in line with CPP increases. |
| Set minimum staffing and care requirements for hospitals, community care and long-term care providers.
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| Provide whistleblower protection. |
| Bring children's and community mental health "out of the cold," building 7,200 supportive housing units and providing support in Community Health Centres.
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| Improve access to records for adoptees and birth parents. |
Progressive Conservative Party
Health Platform [top]
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| Build more hospitals through public-private partnerships. |
| Set guaranteed wait limits for general surgery, cataract surgery, cancer treatment, MRIs, and hip and knee replacement. Would provide out-of-province care if necessary to meet time limit. |
| Provide 40 MRI machines and 50 CT scanners over five years.
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| Hire more family doctors.
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| Hire 650 foreign-trained medical students over five years.
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| Eliminate barriers to practise faced by foreign-trained doctors and nurses.
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| Free tuition for doctors and nurses who agree to practise in under-serviced areas.
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| Expand Family Health Networks to get more doctors in more communities (no numbers given).
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| Hire 8,000 more nurses over three years.
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| Hire 1,000 nurse practitioners.
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| Bolster nurse recruitment.
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| Expand powers of nurse practitioners where there's no local physician.
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| Full-time positions for every nurse who wants one.
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| Three-year funding for hospitals, with increases based on population growth and hospital performance.
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| Parents of children with special needs will get vouchers, so they can choose the best care for their children.
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| Earmark money for emergency rooms.
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| Reduce unnecessary use of emergency rooms.
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| Develop an Infectious Diseases Emergency Plan.
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| Spend $100 million over five years to fight West Nile virus.
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| Create $1-billion cancer institute.
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| Provide $250 million over five years to reform mental health care (including children's mental health).
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| Extend OHIP funding for common prostate-cancer test.
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| Create Children's Health Network, linking children's hospitals throughout the province.
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| Create Shared Care Teams to provide health services for the homeless. Would have the power to remove homeless people from the streets, if deemed necessary.
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| Expand the TeleHealth Ontario call service to accept complaints and suggestions.
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| Work to integrate alternative therapies, such as traditional Chinese medicine, into the health-care system.
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