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Health & Healthcare platforms
Here's what the candidates in Simcoe—Grey, and their parties, are promising.Drugs and addiction
Liberal
Green
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Address substance use through a health and human rights framework, not a criminal justice framework
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Integrate paid peer support workers with lived experience into the planning and organisation of all substance use programming
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Expand the number of safe consumption and treatment sites across the province, prioritising areas with high opioid deaths like the North
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Cover mental health and addiction care for all under OHIP
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Provide dedicated, ongoing funding to municipalities to address the mental health and addictions crisis
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Reopen safe consumption and treatment sites closed by the previous government
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Work with non-profits to build 60,000 permanent supportive homes with guaranteed funding for mental health, addictions, and other supports
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Increase access to publicly-funded treatment beds
PC
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Enforce a ban on safe consumption sites within 200m of schools and licensed child-care centres
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Enforce a ban on municipalities or organisations from starting new safe consumption sites or participating in safe supply initiatives
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Enforce a ban on municipalities requesting the decriminalisation of illicit drugs from the federal government
ONDP
Emergency wait-times
Family doctors and primary care
Liberal
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Bring nurse practitioners into the public system and ban private-pay nurse practitioner clinics
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Introduce centralised referral systems with patient portals
Green
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Stop charging doctors and removing patients from rosters if they visit a walk-in clinic
PC
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Open new medical schools at Toronto Metropolitan University and York University
ONDP
Francophone health
Gender-affirming care
Health administration and privatisation
Health staffing
Liberal
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Bring nurse practitioners into the public system and ban private-pay nurse practitioner clinics
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Provide opportunities for skilled trades and health care workers through union-led training programmes
Green
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Increase fast-tracked credential approvals for international healthcare workers, including nurses and doctors
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Shift away from the reliance on agency nurses
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Compensate healthcare workers fairly for their travel to treat patients at home
PC
ONDP
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End reliance on private, for-profit nursing agencies
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Increase the number of nurses, including hiring at least 15,000 nurses over the next three years
Hospitals
We don't have any Liberal policies on Hospitals.
Green
We don't have any PC policies on Hospitals.
ONDP
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Build a new hospital for Brandford, and another for the Durham Region
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Restore service to Fort Erie and Port Colborne Urgent Care
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Expedite the Windsor-Essex Regional Hospital
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Restore 24/7 emergency services to Welland Hospital
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Build a new hospital for Brampton, with a Cancer Care Centre
Indigenous health
We don't have any Liberal policies on Indigenous health.
Green
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Provide properly-funded Indigenous-led supports for survivors of residential school trauma
We don't have any PC policies on Indigenous health.
We don't have any ONDP policies on Indigenous health.
Long-term care
Liberal
Green
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Phase out for-profit care
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Ensure homes offer culturally appropriate services and care
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Increase random inspections and ensure homes with infractions face the legislated consequences
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Remove rules that force residents into long-term care homes far away from their communities and families to avoid fines
We don't have any PC policies on Long-term care.
ONDP
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Stop the privatisation of home care and long-term care
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Match long-term care and home care workers to communities where they have shared culture and language skills
Mental health
Liberal
Green
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Cover mental health and addiction care for all under OHIP
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Invest in emergency mental health supports, including crisis centres and outreach workers
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Increase base funding for community mental health services
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Implement a wait-time reduction strategy for mental health services that sets targets, tracks wait-times, and makes the info public
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Provide dedicated, ongoing funding to municipalities to address the mental health and addictions crisis
PC
ONDP
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Provide universal basic mental health care
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Clear the waitlist of 28K children and youth waiting for mental health care
Natal care
We don't have any Liberal policies on Natal care.
We don't have any Green policies on Natal care.
We don't have any PC policies on Natal care.
ONDP
Prescription drugs and pharmacare
Root causes of health
We don't have any Liberal policies on Root causes of health.
Green
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Mitigate the health risks to people from heat, wildfire smoke, flooding, and drought
We don't have any PC policies on Root causes of health.
We don't have any ONDP policies on Root causes of health.
Seniors' health and wellbeing
Liberal
Green
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Increase supports for people who care for loved ones who are ill or elderly
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Mandate that nurses and personal support workers are paid appropriately across workplaces and for their travel time between visits
We don't have any PC policies on Seniors' health and wellbeing.
ONDP
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Provide a Seniors Home Safety Grant to help with renovations
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Stop the privatisation of home care and long-term care
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Match long-term care and home care workers to communities where they have shared culture and language skills
Sexual and reproductive health
We don't have any Liberal policies on Sexual and reproductive health.
Green
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Expand access to sexual health and reproductive care
PC
ONDP
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Cover prescription contraception under OHIP
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Cover PrEP and PEP under OHIP
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Cover take-home cervical cancer test kits under OHIP
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Cover the HPV vaccine at any age under OHIP when recommended by a doctor