What are the parties promising on Health staffing?

PC

Invest $120M into a permanent health-care worker recruitment and retention fund

NDP

Hire back 300 nurses that were cut by the current government, and expand retention benefits to all nurses

"Expanding the retention incentives to include all nurses who were excluded by Heather Stefanson’s PCs." — mbndp.ca, 2023-09-07
Hire 400 more physicians in 5 years
Create an office to help internationally-accredited health professionals work through credentialling and registration, waive permanent residence requirements for language courses, and provide financial aid for professionals to take required courses
"The Manitoba NDP will streamline the credentialing and registration process with a 5-step plan:
- Creating a Newcomer Workplace Navigator Office within the Government of Manitoba to support IEHPs through the credentialling and registration process.
- Waiving the permanent residence requirement for language courses.
- Providing financial aid for IEHPs taking required courses.
- Working towards creating more opportunities for practice clinic hours in the province
- Bringing colleges, academic institutions, and health employers together to collaborate on registering more health professionals and reversing the PCs cut to health coverage for international students." — mbndp.ca, 2023-09-15
Expand the University of Manitoba's Bannatyne campus with a new building to train more staff

"The new seats will make up for the 300 cumulative nursing seats the PCs cut from Red River College in 2019 and address the doctor shortage that has reached an all-time high under Heather Stefanson’s watch.

The innovative campus capital expansion will start with a new building, built by Manitobans, that will have more spaces for nurses, doctors, nurse practitioners and physicians' assistants and will include new technology for virtual classrooms to make programs more accessible for rural students." — mbndp.ca, 2023-07-28
End mandatory overtime for nurses

"Developing a plan to end mandatory overtime for nurses and work to implement better nurse-patient ratios." — mbndp.ca, 2023-09-07
Provide continuing education for nurse practitioners

"Kinew said if his party forms government on October 3rd, he will commit to an ambitious health care recruitment plan. He promised to hire back the 300 nurses to make up for the 300 nurses Heather Stefanson cut from Winnipeg, a corresponding commitment for rural and northern nurse staffing and he committed to Doctors Manitoba’s target of hiring 400 more physicians. He also committed to hiring more paramedics, home care workers and personal care home staff. This plan will cost $500 million dollars over four years." — mbndp.ca, 2023-08-27

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Liberal

Offer pro-rated $10K bonuses to public system nurses and health professionals
Offer a pro-rated $5K bonus to Healthcare Workers and Team Members, including homecare workers
Offer a separate pro-rated $10K bonus to nurses and health professionals who return to the public system
Build a new lecture hall at the Health Sciences Centre
Expand burnout benefit coverage to all healthcare workers

"Review the Workers Compensation Act to expand coverage for burnout benefits for all workers" — Dougald Lamont & the Manitoba Liberals — Real Choice, Real Change
Provide a 20% tax credit for healthcare workers' shoes and gowns

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