"Put outcomes before ideology with $66 million for more community surgical and diagnostic centres to reduce wait times and increase surgery volumes in state-of-the-art, convenient and safe facilities . This would support access to MRI and CT services for an additional 100,000 patients annually and access to GI Endoscopy services for up to 60,000 patients annually, in addition to licensing new centres in 2025 to expand services such as regular colonoscopies, hip and knee surgeries." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"We’ll get back to building out Ontario’s public hospital network and stop the privatization of health care services. We will fund hospitals to keep operating rooms running on evenings and weekends instead of redirecting funds to private, for-profit surgical centres." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Ontario needs a centralized referral system that covers the entire province and its specialties. From pediatrics to adult care, wait times vary greatly for diagnostic imaging, surgical and specialist access. A centralized referral system would connect patients to care faster. The Ford government promised this in their Your Health plan but have not delivered." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will also increase rates for the Northern Health Travel Grant to help ease the cost burden on patients and their families who have to travel to get care." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Provide wraparound support to help people recover from addictions, including rapidly building supportive housing units." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Act decisively and collaboratively with those on the frontline to bring deaths caused by opioid use down to zero in four years through expanded treatment, recovery and rehabilitation." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Supporting strict and severe mandatory minimum sentences for criminals convicted of drug trafficking, while ensuring landlords are held liable for knowingly hosting illicit drug production and trafficking sites." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

"Expanding the use and scope of practice for opioid antagonists and partial agonists medications in correctional and community settings to combat long-term addiction and dependence by increasing access to medications that block the effects of opioids." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"Increase inspections of all point-of-origin containers at shipping yards, ports, rail yards and airports from China, the frequent source of fentanyl and other illicit drugs that are plaguing Canadian and American communities." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

"Increasing access to addictions treatment units in jails, including as a condition of probation, to help people exit the vicious cycle of crime and addiction and keep communities safe." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"Working with the federal government to enact new authorities for the RCMP, border agents and regional and local law enforcement to identify, detect and confiscate pill presses, precursor chemicals and lab equipment if law enforcement determine that the intent is to produce fentanyl or other illicit drugs." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

"Investing $530 million to create 27 new Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hubs across the province to support people struggling with addiction and mental health issues by focusing on addiction recovery and supportive housing solutions instead of supporting further hard drug use at drug injection sites." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"We will fund the addition of detox beds and residential treatment beds." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Create 60,000 new supportive housing units, allowing people living in encampments or the shelter system to move into a safe, permanent home, while connecting them to mental healthcare, addiction treatment and other ongoing supports. This commitment is part of our broader Homes Ontario plan to build hundreds of thousands of permanently affordable in the coming years." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will increase funding to community mental health service providers, like CMHA and AMHO, that provide crucial services to help people with addictions." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will ensure you can call 911 from everywhere in the North and improve access to emergency medical services. We will return to 90/10 cost sharing with municipalities for ambulance services for two years to get more ambulances and paramedics on the road while maintaining locally focused delivery in partnership with municipal service managers." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Give every person in Ontario access to a family doctor by attracting, recruiting, retaining and integrating 3,100 family doctors by 2029." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Create two new medical schools and expand capacity in existing medical schools, doubling the number of medical school spots and residency positions." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Deliver team-based care with evening and weekend appointments, integrated home care for seniors, and accessible mental health services for children, youth and teenagers." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Incentivize family doctors to serve in rural and northern communities and mentor the next generation to prevent future shortages." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Accelerate the process to integrate at least 1,200 qualified and experienced internationally trained doctors over the next four years through Practice Ready Ontario." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Eliminate fax machines, enhance virtual care, introduce centralized referral systems with patient portals and implement interoperable electronic medical records to let doctors and other healthcare professionals focus on patients instead of paperwork." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Invest an additional $88 million to expand the Learn and Stay Grant to cover more medical students more quickly to provide free tuition for medical students that practise family medicine in an Ontario community for at least five years after graduation." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"Require all Ontario medical schools to allocate at least 95 per cent of all undergraduate medical school seats to residents of Ontario, with the other five per cent reserved for students from the rest of Canada." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"Expand new medical school seats across the province to complete the largest expansion of new seats in over a decade, and leverage more capacity to train more doctors here at home. This includes a nearly 50 per cent expansion to residency spots by 2028, and a nearly 40 per cent increase in undergraduate medical spots over the same period, which will result in a total of more than 500 new undergraduate spots and 742 new residency positions." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"We will invest $4.1 billion over four years to ensure everyone in Ontario has access to team-based primary care." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Ontario needs a centralized referral system that covers the entire province and its specialties. From pediatrics to adult care, wait times vary greatly for diagnostic imaging, surgical and specialist access. A centralized referral system would connect patients to care faster. The Ford government promised this in their Your Health plan but have not delivered." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will tackle the Northern health crisis by establishing a Northern Command Centre to hire 350 doctors, including 200 family doctors in Northern Ontario and we will double residency positions at NOSM University." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will unlock more time for doctors to spend with patients by cutting the administrative burden and connecting doctors to a support team." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Patients Ahead of Paperwork: Family doctors are spending up to 20 hours a week, the equivalent of more than two days of full-time work, on the paperwork burden — filling out lengthy forms, writing unnecessary sick notes for employers — time that eats away at the amount of time doctors can spend with patients. Taking paperwork off of doctors’ desks will allow them to see an avg of 20 more patients a day.

• The Ontario Medical Association estimates that 40-50% of their time can be freed up when doctors are connected to team-based care. By reducing the amount of time doctors spend on administrative work, we can unlock thousands of hours for doctors to spend with patients and significantly increase the number of patients that each doctor can roster.

• We will streamline time-consuming administrative tasks and reduce the number of forms that are required to be filled out by a doctor

• We will invest in a surge of additional healthcare staff so that doctors can spend their time being doctors." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will accelerate the approval of team-based primary care proposals from Community Health Centres, Nurse Practitioner Led Clinics, and Indigenous Primary Care Organizations that have submitted applications but still await review and funding." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will add 3,500 doctors to the primary care system over four years. We will increase residency spots in medical schools and clear barriers for the 13,000 internationally trained and ready-to-practice doctors in Ontario who are ready to enter the healthcare workforce." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will pay community health workers fairly to make sure the sector does not fall behind. We will increase residency seats and licensing opportunities for internationally trained doctors and healthcare workers already here in Ontario who are not yet able to practice.

• We will add 3,500 doctors to the primary care system by increasing residency spots in medical schools and incentivizing new graduates to stay in primary care by connecting them to an interdisciplinary team.

• We will clear barriers for the 13,000 internationally trained and ready-to-practice doctors to enter the healthcare workforce." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Make sure workers in the community health sector are paid fairly. Ontario needs to invest in a base budget increase of 5% or $33.7 million annually for community-governed comprehensive primary health care organizations. Members have only seen a 6% increase over 27 years." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Stop the practice of “negation,” where your family doctor has to pay when you receive care from a walk-in clinic, and patients can face “deregistration” and lose their doctor as a result." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Develop a Francophone Healthcare Strategy to ensure Franco-Ontarians are able to access care in their first language." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will return the midwifery program to Sudbury University to increase access to labour and delivery services while growing our francophone health care workforce." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will ensure Francophones and First Nations receive reliable home care and long-term care in their language by creating culturally appropriate training, and care that reflects their language and culture. Seniors deserve personal, familiar care, and we will make that a reality. We will work with University of Sudbury and Nipissing University to support northern students to stay and work in Northern communities." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will work with experts, health care providers, patients and communities to ensure access to gender affirming care and break down barriers to accessing health care for all 2SLGBTQ+ Ontarians." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Investigate Ford’s privatization plans, including a full review of Health Minister Sylvia Jones’ mandate letters and audit how Ontario is using the more than $20 billion in federal health transfers it receives every year." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Help hospitals hire and retain the staff they need by paying nurses, PSWs and other supportive healthcare workers a living wage and providing them with additional training and professional development opportunities to stay in the public system." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Eliminate wage discrepancy across the system, regardless of whether you work for a hospital, in-home care or in long-term care." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Help hospitals hire and retain the staff they need by paying nurses, PSWs and other supportive healthcare workers a living wage and providing them with additional training and professional development opportunities to stay in the public system." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Crackdown on Ford’s for-profit healthcare by regulating temporary nursing agencies." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Offer a $150,000 bonus to patriotic nurses and doctors who are currently practicing in the U.S. but want to come home and support our publicly-funded healthcare system." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Further leverage the skills and expertise of Ontario pharmacists to continue making pharmacies a one-stop-shop for more convenient care closer to home, as well as continue to expand scopes of practice for other professions, such as registered practical nurses, registered nurses and physiotherapists, to deliver more connected and convenient care." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"Removing red tape and helping those who want to work in Ontario with new “As of Right” rules to become the first province in Canada to allow health-care workers registered in other provinces and territories to immediately start caring for you, without having to first register with one of Ontario’s health regulatory colleges." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"We will bring in safe nurse-patient ratios for better care and end the reliance on for-profit private nursing agencies that are costing hospitals hundreds of millions of dollars." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will establish a Northern Command Centre to support recruitment, gather data on system capacity, and quickly identify emerging workforce issues." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will increase funding to locum programs and opportunities for educational and targeted skills development in northern Ontario, building local knowledge and a skillset suited for the unique challenges of medicine in remote communities." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will eliminate parking fees at hospitals for staff, visitors and patients. No one should be worried about paying for parking at a hospital during an affordability crisis, whether you are a patient, a loved one, a front-line worker or a doctor." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Re-open Minden Hospital and preserve Rural Emergency Departments" — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Responsibly plan for a new Regional Hospital in Kitchener-Waterloo" — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We’ll get back to building out Ontario’s public hospital network and stop the privatization of health care services. We will fund hospitals to keep operating rooms running on evenings and weekends instead of redirecting funds to private, for-profit surgical centres." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Repeal the coercive Bill 7 and ensure LTCs are held accountable for mismanagement, non-compliance, and neglect of direct care under a four-hour minimum standard per resident, per day." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Repeal the coercive Bill 7 and ensure LTCs are held accountable for mismanagement, non-compliance, and neglect of direct care under a four-hour minimum standard per resident, per day." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will reverse the unconstitutional Bill 7 that allows hospitals to discharge patients into long-term care homes without their consent." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will ensure Francophones and First Nations receive reliable home care and long-term care in their language by creating culturally appropriate training, and care that reflects their language and culture. Seniors deserve personal, familiar care, and we will make that a reality. We will work with University of Sudbury and Nipissing University to support northern students to stay and work in Northern communities." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Introduce universal mental healthcare under OHIP by expanding the Ontario Structured Psychotherapy Program, covering conditions like anxiety, depression, and eating disorders, hiring more social workers, and defining standards and coverage so that all people in Ontario have a basic form of coverage they can count on." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Connect people to mental health resources and community support by establishing the CARE Fund (Crisis Assistance and Response Enhancement Fund) to double investment in Mobile Crisis Intervention Teams." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Improve access to mental health and addictions services by implementing the $3.8 billion Roadmap to Wellness: A Plan to Build Ontario’s Mental Health and Addictions System to improve mental health services for communities across Ontario, and support patients and families living with mental health and addictions challenges." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"We will establish wage parity for health care workers in community settings to ensure community primary care providers can also offer mental health support." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will increase funding to community mental health service providers, like CMHA and AMHO, that provide crucial services to help people with addictions." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will ensure children and families have access to Autism services, particularly in Northern and Rural communities where services are even scarcer." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will return the midwifery program to Sudbury University to increase access to labour and delivery services while growing our francophone health care workforce." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Speed up the government “time-to-list process” for life-saving medications by at least six months by improving existing processes and reducing red tape through a new accelerated pathway, beginning with cancer drugs approved through Health Canada’s Project Orbis framework . This will help more people access life-saving medications and put Ontario at the forefront of health-care innovation." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"Guarantee needs-based home care through Family Health Teams, boosting annual home care funding by 25%." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Help seniors age at home gracefully by creating a Seniors’ Home Care Tax Credit, saving up to 25% of up to $10,000 in medical expenses a year." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will make it easier for seniors to age at home safely with reliable access to home care and a monthly Caregiver Benefit for those caring for loved ones at home. We will make it more affordable for seniors to make renovations that will help them age at home." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will ensure Francophones and First Nations receive reliable home care and long-term care in their language by creating culturally appropriate training, and care that reflects their language and culture. Seniors deserve personal, familiar care, and we will make that a reality. We will work with University of Sudbury and Nipissing University to support northern students to stay and work in Northern communities." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We’ll fix Ontario Health at Home, after Ford’s disastrous roll out, so no one is left waiting without urgent homecare supplies." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Continuing to expand access to fertility services and provide a new tax credit to help more people start and grow their families." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26