Hire more physician assistants and nurse practitioners to provide Emergency Room care
Make virtual care apps like Maple free
Set up a task force to create a plan for reducing delays when offloading patients from ambulances
Hire more care providers and patient advocates to provide waiting room support
Provide up to $20k more funding to fire departments offering Medical First Responder services
Add four full-time ambulances
Provide free tuition for primary and advanced care paramedics who serve in PEI for two years
Offer recruitment incentives for rural paramedic positions
Provide funding to organisations providing non-urgent patient transfers
"Providing funding to organizations such as Pat and the Elephant, Transportation West, and others to do the non-urgent transfer of medically stable patient transfers on PEI. This funding would include covering transportation costs as well as providing funding for the necessary equipment and vehicles to provide patient transfers" — peipc.ca, 2023-03-07
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;
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
Develop a Chronic Pain Management Strategy and set up a clinic
"Develop and support a Chronic Pain Management Strategy and Chronic Pain Management Clinic" — [With You. For You., 2023-03-24](With You. For You., 2023-03-24)
We don't have any NDP policies on Chronic pain.
We don't have any Liberal policies on Chronic pain.
Provide insurance for health, dental, and medications for part-time, seasonal, contract, and gig workers
"Create a Portable Health Benefits Program to provide health, dental, and medication insurance for workers who may not be employed full-time, year-round, or those facing barriers to insurance coverage like seasonal workers, contract employees, and gig economy workers." — peipc.ca, 2023-03-10
Expand the Eye See...Eye Learn Program to ages 0-12
"Expand the Eye See...Eye Learn Program to provide children with two free eye exams and two free pairs of eyeglasses between birth and age 12" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
Provide $250K to allow workers who work with vulnerable people to take the Brain Story Certification training
"Provide $250,000 to facilitate frontline workers — such as social workers, healthcare professionals, correctional workers, police officers and anyone who works with vulnerable Islanders — to take the Brain Story Certification training to better understand the connection between brain development to addiction and mental health" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
Invest in a dedicated site in Charlottetown to provide wrap-around services for vulnerable Islanders
"Invest in a Charlottetown-based dedicated site to provide wrap-around services for vulnerable Islanders, including but not limited to Community Outreach Centre, supportive housing, housing that fosters independent living, harm reduction programs, social supports, training programs, etc." — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
Increase the income threshold for KidSport funding
"Increase the income threshold for KidSport funding to provide up to $600 per child to participate in sports and recreational activities for any household that earns under $80,000" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
Increase the Fitness and Activity Tax Credit to $1K
"Increase the Fitness and Activity Tax Credit to $1,000 for registration or membership fees to artistic, cultural, recreational or physical activity programming" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
We don't have any NDP policies on Fitness and wellbeing.
We don't have any Liberal policies on Fitness and wellbeing.
Decrease the wage gap between public and private providers
"Continue to work with the Long-term Care Associations to decrease the wage gap between public and private providers and to develop a long-term human resource strategy for community care and long-term care facilities" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
Expand electronic medical records to manors and nursing homes
Legislate common standards with standardised inspections for public and private care facilities
"Make legislative amendments to ensure that public and private community care facilities and long-term care facilities move toward common standards, including uniform inspections so that Islanders are safe and receive appropriate care and support" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
Add additional resources, such as physiotherapists and occupational therapists, to community and long-term care facilities
"Introduce additional resources, such as physiotherapists, occupational therapists and other allied health providers, into community care and long-term facilities to improve the quality of life for residents" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
Create a fund for recruitment and retention initiatives
"Respecting collective agreements, establish a fund to foster recruitment and retention specific to community care and long-term care facilities" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
Create a capital loan programme for expanding community and long-term care programmes
"Create a capital loan program for community care and long-term care facilities to expand over the next five years" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
Increase the monthly comfort allowance for residents in care
Provide $250K to allow workers who work with vulnerable people to take the Brain Story Certification training
"Provide $250,000 to facilitate frontline workers — such as social workers, healthcare professionals, correctional workers, police officers and anyone who works with vulnerable Islanders — to take the Brain Story Certification training to better understand the connection between brain development to addiction and mental health" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
Provide funding for a dedicated resource to provide mental health support to the Autism Society of PEI's members and their families
Provide mental health therapy through the PEI health card
"Implement mental health therapy through the PEI health card, allowing Islanders to choose the best services for their needs." — NDP Platform 2023, 2023-03-09
Improve e-health accessibility
"Improve accessibility of our province’s complicated and under-utilized e-health system." — NDP Platform 2023, 2023-03-09
Provide insurance for health, dental, and medications for part-time, seasonal, contract, and gig workers
"Create a Portable Health Benefits Program to provide health, dental, and medication insurance for workers who may not be employed full-time, year-round, or those facing barriers to insurance coverage like seasonal workers, contract employees, and gig economy workers." — peipc.ca, 2023-03-10
Reduce the co-pay for the generic drug programme to $5
Add more drugs to the formulary covered by the government
"Continue to work with the federal government towards a PharmaCare program by adding more drugs to the formulary covered by the government" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
Add 16 more Patient Medical Homes by the end of 2024
Make virtual care apps like Maple free
Add 100 new full-time positions supporting medical homes
Create Mobile Primary Care Clinics
Launch walk-in clinics led by nurse practitioners
Attach all patients on the Patient Registry to a Medical Home within the next 2 years
Expand the Charlottetown and Summerside Primary Care Access Clinics, and open new ones in West Prince and Kings County
Allow people to access telehealth services at libraries and Access PEI locations
Expand online tools like Skip the Waiting Room for booking appointments
"Implement tools like Skip the Waiting Room across all areas of the healthcare system to reduce no-show appointments and provide patients with the ability to book their own appointments" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
Implement a programme to connect family physicians directly with specialists, instead of having physicians make unnecessary referrals
"Implement a Virtual Hallway program to connect family physicians with specialists for consults to avoid unnecessary referrals to specialists." — peipc.ca, 2023-03-10
Revise the medical fee structure to allow family physicians to provide additional walk-in clinic services
"Modernize the medical fee structure so it is flexible enough to cover innovative arrangements for family physicians who want to provide access to primary care through walk-in clinics outside their existing patients" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
Provide operating grants to establish Access Clinic Exam Spaces for pharmacists, physicians, and nurse practitioners to provide walk-in services
"Working with communities and non-profit organizations, provide operating grants to establish Access Clinic Exam Spaces for local pharmacists, physicians, nurse practitioners, and locum physicians to provide walk-in clinics for routine, non-urgent matters" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
"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
Include more healthcare professionals under the regional licensing system
"Increase our regional licensing system to include other healthcare professionals, similar to what the Atlantic provinces have done with the Atlantic Physician Registry" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
Work with other Atlantic provinces to use vacant operating room times across the region for reducing surgery backlogs
Provide financial assistance to cover accommodations and meals for Islanders who have to travel out-of-province for treatment, tests, or operations
"Launch a comprehensive Medical Transportation Assistance Program to provide Islanders who have to travel out of province for medical treatment, tests or operations with financial assistance to cover accommodations and per diems for meals, in addition to existing programs to cover gas, bridge or ferry tolls" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
We don't have any NDP policies on Regional healthcare.
We don't have any Liberal policies on Regional healthcare.
Provide $500/year rebates for home-based medical alert systems
Increase the Seniors Safe at Home income threshold to $15,000
"Increase income thresholds for the Seniors Safe at Home program from $10,000 to $15,000" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
Provide seniors living at-home with social and health services, including telehealth
"Establishing a Care-in-Place program by working with home care, community care, and long-term care facilities to provide seniors living at home with enhanced social and health supports including telehealth services available from home, connecting residents with existing community services and programs, friendly check-in calls and in-person social visits, offering intergenerational programming with students, transportation to medical appointments, grocery shopping and social outings, and opening recreational programs available at long-term care facilities to seniors living in their own homes." — peipc.ca, 2023-03-09
Add 50 new positions over 2 years to provide home care services and support for patients discharged from hospitals
Increase the Seniors Home Repair programme to $8,000
Provide a grant up to $1,500/mo to families of seniors remaining at-home
"Create a Primary Caregiver Grant of up to $1,500 a month to support families who choose to keep their loved ones at home longer instead of going to community care" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
Prioritise livable wages, stable work, and health and safety for long-term and home-care workers
Provide OT, physio, social work, personal support, and home help in the public home care programme
"Strengthen the full-range complement of professional services in the publicly managed home care program – OT, physio, social work, personal support and home help." — NDP Platform 2023, 2023-03-09
Create a Caregiver Tax Credit
"Create a substantial Caregiver Tax Credit to provide real financial support to family caregivers." — NDP Platform 2023, 2023-03-09
Increase the Seniors Hearing Aid Rebate to cover up to $6,000
"Doubling the Seniors Hearing Aid Rebate program to a maximum coverage of up to $6,000 instead of a maximum of $3,000 per individual" — peipc.ca, 2023-03-10
Increase the Seniors Tax Credit to $6,510, and raise the threshold to $36K
Expand the Seniors Independence Initiative to provide up to $2,500 in assistance for individuals with income up to $40K and couples with income up to $50K
"Expand the Seniors Independence Initiative to provide up to $2,500 in assistance for individuals with a household income of up to $40,000 for a single person or $50,000 for a couple" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
Create a 12-month plan to add new speech-language pathologist and audiologist positions
"Working with the PEI Speech and Hearing Association, develop a 12-month action plan to add new Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists positions to the public system to address the current waitlist and population gaps in services" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
We don't have any NDP policies on Speech and hearing.
Make on-Island tuition free for RCWs, LPNs, and Paramedics who serve in PEI for two years, and provide bursaries for LPNs, RNs, and Paramedics who study off-Island
Provide free licenses for returning healthcare workers who want to do casual or part-time work
Guarantee that students studying in healthcare will get full-time positions the day after they graduate
Legislate recognition of domestic and foreign RCW, LPN, and RN credentials
Allow foreign-trained physicians to practice under a new Associate Physician license, while being supervised by fully-licensed physicians
"Launch an Associate Physician license to allow foreign-trained physicians expedited licensing to practice to a defined scope under the supervision of other fully licensed physicians" — peipc.ca, 2023-03-09
Work with post-secondary institutions to help retrain RCWs as LPNs and LPNs as RNs, while keeping them at work
Create a recruitment and retention strategy for high vacancy positions
"Develop a recruitment and retention strategy for high vacancy positions, including lab technology, social work, psychology and therapists, by working with post-secondary partners in the region" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
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
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
Make on-Island tuition free for RCWs, LPNs, and Paramedics who serve in PEI for two years, and provide bursaries for LPNs, RNs, and Paramedics who study off-Island
Guarantee that students studying in healthcare will get full-time positions the day after they graduate
Start an Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Work with communities and post-secondary institutions to offer healthcare training programmes in communities across the province
"Work with communities and our post-secondary institutions to offer training programs for healthcare professionals in communities across the province, as our PC government has done for RCW training" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
Work with post-secondary institutions to help retrain RCWs as LPNs and LPNs as RNs, while keeping them at work
Create a programme in high schools to help students transition into health-based careers
"Develop a Healthcare Career Pathway Pilot in high schools allowing students to more easily transition from high school to health-based careers." — peipc.ca, 2023-03-20
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
Double scholarships and financial recruitment incentives
"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
