"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

"Reduce the backlog in surgeries, imaging, and diagnostic tests through the creation of a centralised intake and referral system to connect primary care providers with specialists and create specialised care teams to reduce surgery wait times" — Our Plan for Fairness, 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

"Integrate mental health and addictions services into expanded Family Health Teams and walk-in clinics to improve early intervention" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Invest in the creation and expansion of permanent 24/7 mobile crisis response teams where mental health care workers are deployed when people are experiencing a mental health or substance related crisis, as well as rapid access addiction medicine clinics" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"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

"Create a centralised and coordinated program for fill-in physicians to provide relief and prevention of ER closures and for family practices that prioritises local solutions" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Create a new and integrated framework to deploy healthcare providers more effectively in rural areas, and to help shift demand from emergency rooms" — Our Plan for Fairness, 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

"Recruit 3,500 more doctors in Ontario through more medical school positions and more residency opportunities for international medical graduates so that every person has a primary care provider within 3-4 years" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Expand and provide start-up funding for family health teams across the province with a wider variety of care available (social workers, addictions care, physio, etc.)" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Work with primary care providers to dramatically decrease administrative demands on doctors, and move to electronic prescriptions to allow them to spend more time caring for patients" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Increase funding to expand access to publicly funded and publicly provided 24/7 non urgent clinics like community health clinics and nurse practitioner led clinics to reduce pressure on emergency rooms" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Better integrate long-term care, homecare, and caregiver services within family health teams to properly provide for the complex needs of residents" — Our Plan for Fairness, 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

"Create a comprehensive strategy to ensure equitable, inclusive and affirming access to care and treatment for 2SLGBTQIA+ communities within our healthcare system including gender-affirming procedures and medications" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Stop future investor-driven privatisation and reverse Ford’s efforts to privatise our healthcare system" — Our Plan for Fairness, 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

"Pay healthcare workers fairly by harmonising wages across the health- care system to ensure retention of experienced staff and good community health supports. Ensure wages are equitable and internationally competitive for Doctors, Registered Nurses (RNs), Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs), and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) across all healthcare settings" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Fix the staffing shortage by providing equal pay for nurses, doctors and PSWs across all communities and healthcare settings in Ontario to increase capacity in rural and re- mote communities, and compensate healthcare workers fairly for their travel to treat patients at home" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Address retention and recruitment issues so that we can meet the need of at least 6,800 new PSWs by 2028" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Increase nursing student enrolments by 10% per year for the next 5 years. Increase nurse practitioners by 2,500 by 2030" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Shift away from our reliance on agency nurses and decrease the financial burden on hospitals by capping licenced agencies fees and restricting agency nurses from working in the hospital of previous employment for six months" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"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

"Increase provincial funding for rural hospitals and cut their local cost share for funding new hospitals in half" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Increase the number of Indigenous professionals working in healthcare through training and mentorship opportunities and ensure their retention in Indigenous communities, particularly in northern and remote communities" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Publish annual progress reports and assess long-term trends and indicators in areas such as suicide, mental health, chronic diseases, and availability of appropriate health services to ensure equity in access to care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Increase the number of Indigenous-led health centres and healing centres, youth programming, crisis support teams, and support suicide-prevention training" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Work with Indigenous communities to fill gaps in seniors care and maternal care, including clinics and long term care spaces that are small, person-centred, trauma informed and culturally responsive" — Our Plan for Fairness, 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

"Build 48,000 non-profit long-term care spaces by 2029 to meet growing demand." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Legislate staffing in long-term care facilities to include a minimum of one nurse practitioner for every 120 residents and a staff composition that includes a minimum of 20% registered nurses and 25% registered practical nurses, and an additional 55% personal support workers" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Legislate staffing in long-term care facilities to include a minimum of one nurse practitioner for every 120 residents and a staff composition that includes a minimum of 20% registered nurses and 25% registered practical nurses, and an additional 55% personal support workers" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Create more Indigenous-led, rural and remote long-term care homes in their communities, and allocate a portion of the new beds to these homes" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Prioritise and enhance capital support for the expansion of not-for-profit long term care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Pay fairly to retain staff so that we can ensure 4 hours per day of care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Create a plan to build small, person-centred homes, like the butterfly model, and to transition current institutional settings to the new model" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Instantly create thousands of additional seniors supportive housing units by adding healthcare and social services supports into existing non-profit seniors housing buildings" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Ensure the right of residents to have accommodations made for themselves and their spouse or life partner so they can continue to live together in long-term care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Better integrate long-term care, homecare, and caregiver services within the healthcare system to properly provide for the complex needs of residents" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Mandate continued professional development for staff on geriatric care, culturally sensitive care practices for caring for residents with dementia, and palliative and end-of-life care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Increase long-term care resident access to allied health professionals, such as dieticians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and social workers" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Prioritise healthy, quality local food as an important component of resident wellbeing" — Our Plan for Fairness, 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

"Immediately make the investments in frontline mental health to reduce wait times to 30 days or less for children and youth" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Ensure retention and recruitment of workers in the community mental health sector by bringing wages up to par with other providers in the sector" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Improve access to care by providing virtual care options in rural and remote regions" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Integrate mental health and addictions services into expanded Family Health Teams and walk-in clinics to improve early intervention" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Increase investment in Youth Wellness Hubs province-wide as a one-stop shop for employment, health, addiction, education, recreation and housing support" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Invest in emergency mental health supports including crisis centres and outreach workers, and have social workers in emergency rooms during peak hours to divert their needs" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Ensure adequate mental health supports are available for first responders" — Our Plan for Fairness, 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

"As an immediate measure, publicly fund take-home cancer and rare disease medications" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Increase upstream investments in the social determinants of health, such as reducing social isolation, housing in- security, and poverty to prevent substantial, long-term healthcare costs and severe disease" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Improve environmental determinants of health by prioritising clean air, clean water, and access to healthy local food in all communities" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Improve environmental determinants of health by prioritising clean air, clean water, and access to healthy lo- cal food in all communities" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Support and promote healthy behaviours to prevent disease and reduce risk factors such as poor nutrition and smoking. These early investments will lead to better long-term health outcomes and reduce stress on the system" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Establish stricter monitoring and enforcement standards for air and water pollution in areas where communities are exposed to potential health risks from multiple industries" — Our Plan for Fairness, 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

"Ensure a robust home care and community care system that is anchored within primary care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Increase funding for local libraries, community centres and neighbour- hood coalitions, which play an important role in encouraging community connections and reducing isolation for elders" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Increase funding for our community health sector to address the staffing crisis and to ensure timely, safe and quality care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Better integrate long-term care, homecare, and caregiver services within family health teams to properly provide for the complex needs of residents" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Support local communities to enable the development of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities with planning and project funding through an Age-Friendly Communities grant program" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Repeal laws that would prohibit or create barriers to cohousing and coliving" — Our Plan for Fairness, 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