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Healthcare

Wait-times platforms

Here's what the 2020 BC election parties are promising.

BC NDP
  • Optimize surgical and diagnostic space.
  • Add four more MRI machines in the next year.
  • Provide the hospital needed staff to perform more surgeries and other procedures.

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Maximizing the capacity of existing surgical and diagnostic space: We're developing new strategies to optimize surgical and diagnostic space and teams, so BC can keep pace with the demand for new surgeries and increase the number of MRIs annually - reducing people's wait for care and relief.

Adding four more MRI machines in the next year: We're putting more MRIs in areas of highest remaining demand - Ridge Meadows Hospital (Maple Ridge), Langley Memorial, Vancouver General and St Paul's, with more to come.

Providing the hospital staff needed to perform more surgeries and other procedures: Our training, recruitment, certification, and retention strategies will help make sure BC has the skilled health workforce to deliver care faster.

— From Working for You.

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BC Liberals
  • Improve Ambulance Service response-times, especially in rural communities.
  • Increase online booking of medical appointments.
  • Improve public reporting of wait-times.
  • Accelerate adoption of virtual medical consultations.
  • Expand online prescription-renewals, optional home delivery.
We don't have any BC Greens policies on Wait-times.

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