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Judy Hughes

Affordability

Childcare

Liberal's promises

Enhance childcare subsidies for low-income Islanders

"Enhance childcare subsidies for low-income Islanders to support their efforts in participating in the labour market" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Add more spaces to existing facilities
Build new facilities in rural areas
Increase funding for staff to support children who require one-on-one assistance

"Increasing funding for inclusion support staff to support children that require one-to-one assistance" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Create a programme to fund school-age centres

"Creating a funding program for school-age centres to support the requirements of parents requiring extended hours of coverage for their children" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Support training and professional development opportunities fro childcare staff
Work with the childcare sector to develop a recruitment and retention programme

"Working with the sector to develop a sustained, long-term recruitment and retention program in order to ensure the required workforce to support expanded spaces" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Increase grants for renovating and expanding existing childcare centres

"Increasing renovation grants to expand existing centres/spaces that reflect actual building costs" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Inflationary support

Liberal's promises

Increase allowable income under social assistance programmes
Increase social assistance supports to counter inflation

Prescription drugs & pharmacare

Liberal's promise

Expedite access to publicly-funded medications

"Expedite access to publicly funded medications so Islanders get access to newly approved medications" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Education

K-12 funding

Liberal's promises

Emphasise academic and career counselling in earlier grades
Increase funding for education assistances, school psychologists, audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and other resource personnel
Increase focus on student assessments to measure student, teacher, and system performance

"Increasing focus on student assessments (PCAP, PISA, and provincial assessments) as a key measure of student/teacher/education system performance" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Increase investments in professional development supports for teachers
Set targets for how many high school grads move on to post-secondary

Health & Healthcare

Ambulance and emergency wait-times

Liberal's promises

Make the Premier in charge of healthcare for two years
Create a new Patients' Rights Act with an independent officer to adjudicate complaints

"A New Patients’ Rights Act that gives Islanders legal rights when it comes to timely access to healthcare services: The Liberal Party believes that Islanders deserve the right to timely, legally guaranteed access to healthcare services, regardless of where they live in PEI. This Act will define the rights that Islanders will have regarding access to healthcare. Implementation and enforcement of the Act will be a ministerial responsibility accompanied by an independent officer of the Legislature to adjudicate complaints and recommend corrective and/or remedial action." — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Invest in interim residential services and restorative care beds

"4. Invest in interim residential services and facilities for medically discharged patients who need supports prior to returning home;

5. Invest in restorative care beds so that medically discharged patients have an appropriate care setting to go to recover with the required medical supports" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Expand access to primary care in non-urgent settings

"Expand access to primary care in non-urgent settings to divert patients away from ERs." — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Add Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants to ER teams

"Leverage other health professionals such as Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants to become part of the ER care team to address shortages and improve access to care" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Provide ER workers compensation commensurate to the stress and difficulty of the job

"Ensure emergency medicine offers compensation commensurate to the stress and difficultly of working conditions so that nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, and other health care providers view emergency medicine as an attractive specialty of the health profession." — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Long-term care

Liberal's promises

Make the national long-term care standards mandatory
Expand nursing care for treating dementia patients in public and private facilities
Develop new expanded training programmes for long-term care
Create a planning model to provide 10-year projections for care needs

"Develop a supply and demand planning model that provides 10-year projections on long-term care, community care, and senior’s housing needs" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Pay community care facilities and nursing care facilities the same for non-health services
Provide subsidies and contractual payments reflecting inflation

"Develop and implement subsidies and contractual payments that reflect the actual inflation and cost of living increases experienced by the sector" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Mental health

Liberal's promises

Create a 10-year plan for providing accommodations to people living with mental illness without stable housing
Provide mental health and addictions services online

"Provide online access to mental health and addictions services to be available for every Islander in need" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Expand access to paid mental health services from psychologists

"Expand access to mental health services through the use of psychologists as part of the PEI Health system on a fee-for-service basis" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Add more mental health walk-in clinics and mobile mental health units

"Expand the number of mental health walk-in clinics and mobile mental health units to increase services to Islanders, including 24-7 coverage" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Create a dedicated department of mental health and addictions with its own Minister and budget

"Establish a dedicated department of mental health and addictions with its own Minister, budget, and Deputy Minister to deliver enhanced services to Islanders" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Prescription drugs & pharmacare

Liberal's promise

Expedite access to publicly-funded medications

"Expedite access to publicly funded medications so Islanders get access to newly approved medications" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Primary care

Liberal's promises

Temporarily add more walk-in clinics by incentivising physicians

"Expand the volume of walk-in clinics on an interim basis by incentivizing physicians to provide these services" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Adjust fees and compensation for family physicians to make the career more attractive

"Adjust fee structure/compensation models, so that family medicine becomes a more attractive career choice"  — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Develop a digital medical specialist programme

"Work with the PEI Medical Society, UPEI, and Holland College to develop a digital medical specialist program to help physicians with support to better manage administrative backlogs and inefficiencies" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Expand the range of conditions pharmacists can diagnose and prescribe for, and programmes they can deliver

"Expand the range of health conditions for which Island pharmacists can diagnose and prescribe in keeping with their scope of practice that reflects what pharmacists can do in the rest of Canada" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

"3. Allow pharmacists to deliver the PEI Smoking and Vaping Cessation Program to allow more Islanders to access these critically important services;

4. Allow pharmacists to deliver contraception management services on a fee-for-service basis to broaden the accessibility of these services for Island women;

5. Allow pharmacists to play a greater role in chronic disease management, including blood pressure and cholesterol diagnosis / treatment and diabetes management;

6. Allow pharmacists to serve as the primary location for vaccine services, including flu and Covid-booster vaccines" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Create a new funding model to encourage pharmacy owners to be more involved in primary care

"Develop a funding model that encourages and supports pharmacy owners to play a greater role in primary care delivery as well as incentivizes pharmacists to deliver expanded services." — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Fund physician access to digital health tech specialists

"Provide physicians with access to funded digital health technology specialists to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of medical practices."

Use online tools to provide real-time wait time info for ERs, medical clinics, and other care settings

"Implement online systems and booking options to provide Islanders with real-time information on wait times at ERs, medical clinics, and other care settings to enhance access to non-urgent treatments" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Rural healthcare

Liberal's promise

Senior at-home care

Liberal's promises

Expand the home-care budget
Create a pilot project to provide up to $1,500/mo people who stay at home to care for a loved one, and provide various supports to the caregiver

"Ensure the HomeFirst Homecare Program is focused on supporting the caregiver with system-wide health supports, including:

• Provincial needs assessment to determine level of care requirements;

• Inclusion in the Provincial Homecare program for monitoring and follow-up;

• Access to 911 and Island EMS paramedics mobile integrated health services for in-home care under the guise of an expanded Senior’s Check-In Program;

• Access to advanced first aid training for caregivers;

• Access to mental health supports and training for caregivers;" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Increase funding for the Senior's Home Repair Program

"Expanding funding under the Senior’s Home Repair Program to ensure more seniors have access to funding that allows them to remain in their homes longer" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Seniors' health & services

Liberal's promises

Invest in 500 new, affordable seniors' housing units with assisted-living options

"Expand in public investments in 500 new, affordable seniors housing units that provide seniors with assisted living options." — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Sexual and reproductive health

Liberal's promises

Later expand to fertility treatment
Provide public coverage for prescription contraceptives

"Increase investments in women’s reproductive health starting with public coverage for prescription contraceptives and expansion to fertility treatment funding" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Staffing shortages

Liberal's promises

Work with nursing organisations to create a Nursing Sustainability Strategy

"Engage with RN and LPN Nursing organizations to develop a Nursing Sustainability Strategy with the nursing profession that is based on a 10-year workforce projection in order to define projected shortages and recruitment/retention/compensation challenges and solutions" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Address financial compensation for nurses

"Address financial compensation so that nursing becomes a financially-rewarding career that attracts new entrants, retains our current nurses, and brings retired nurses back into active practice" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Increase RN and LPN nursing programme spaces

"Increase nursing spaces in RN and LPN programs to address chronic nursing shortages, including a focus on training nurses in rural areas" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Cover tuition costs for any nurse who returns to work in PEI

"Increase student enrollment in expanded PEI nursing programs through a Team Nursing Scholarship program that covers the tuition costs for any nurse who returns to work in PEI’s healthcare system"  — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Allow nurses licensed in other provinces to practice in PEI

"Establish inter-provincial labour mobility among nurses licensed to practice in other provinces to practice in PEI" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Legislate nurse-to-patient ratios

"Establish a workplace where nursing workloads are based upon legislated nurse-to-patient ratios" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Double scholarships and financial recruitment incentives

"Double scholarships/financial recruitment incentives to ensure Island students studying medicine in other provinces will find it attractive to return to PEI to practice" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Double the number of medical residency seats

"Establish return-in-service agreements for Island students studying at a Canadian University where the PEI government has purchased seats and double the number of medical residency seats, including four new seats for students studying outside of Canada" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Housing & Homelessness

Affordable housing

Liberal's promises

Create a 10-year plan for providing accommodations to people living with mental illness without stable housing
Invest in 500 new, affordable seniors' housing units with assisted-living options

"Expand in public investments in 500 new, affordable seniors housing units that provide seniors with assisted living options." — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Expand low-cost financing to provide $150M of new incentives over 3 years to non-profits, co-ops, and developers building affordable housing
Create new grant/subsidy programmes to support non-profits and co-ops constructing and operating affordable housing

Home construction and supply

Liberal's promises

Allow community-funded housing projects to be funded under Community Economic Development Investment Funds
Provide financial and HR support to municipalities to speed up building permit approvals and rezoning

"Provide financial and/or HR support to municipalities to expedite building permit approvals and zoning changes in order to help speed up the construction process" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Make multi-unit residential properties qualifying business for immigrants to invest in in order to qualify for citizenship

"Making multi-unit residential properties qualifying businesses for immigrants to invest in in order to qualify for citizenship under provincial immigration programs" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Explore building housing developments on crown lands

"Explore the strategic use of crown land for housing developments in partnership with communities and PEI’s First Nations" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Bring back the Cabinet Committee on Housing

"Re-institute the Cabinet Committee on Housing to provide for leadership and accountability for housing projects and initiatives" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Home purchases

Liberal's promise

Provide an interest-reducing subsidy on $200K of a mortgage, up to $4K/year for 5 years, for families with an income of $95K or less

"Support first-time homebuyers with an OwnFirst program whereby families with an income of $95,000 or less can get an interest-reducing subsidy on the first $200,000 of their mortgage of up to $4000 per year for a period of 5 years" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Rental housing

Liberal's promises

Increase rental subsidies for low-income Islanders
Allow landlords to adjust rents on vacant properties

"Undertake a more balanced approach to rental legislation that allows PEI landlords to adjust rents on vacant properties in keeping with the approach in the rest of Canada" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Shelters and homeless services

Liberal's promises

Keep shelters open 24-hours-a-day
Address the recommendations of the 2019 Community Needs Assessment on Emergency Shelters

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