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Health & Healthcare platforms

Here's what the candidates in Edmonton-Decore, and their parties, are promising.

Autism

UCP

  • Provide $5M for autism testing and education supports

    "A re-elected United Conservative government will also add funding for testing and educational supports for children with autism and other complex needs to ensure there are improved wraparound supports integrating community, education, and health care." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-17

We don't have any NDP policies on Autism.

Drugs and addiction

UCP

  • Spend $6M over two years to create sheriff-led teams targeting gun smuggling and fentanyl trafficking at the border
  • Allow family courts to issue treatment orders requiring a person to be treated for addiction, at the request of a family member, doctor, or police officer

    "The Compassionate Intervention Act will allow a family member, doctor, or police officer to make a petition to family court for a treatment order when someone is a danger to themselves or others. The treatment order would require that person to engage in treatment for their addiction and drug use to save their life and protect the safety of the community." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-17

    "Treatment orders would vary depending on the individual and their needs and circumstances and could include evidence-based medication treatment (Opioid Agonist Treatment or OAT), outpatient counseling, medical detox, inpatient addiction treatment, or attendance in an in-patient treatment program. The treatment order would provide the person with the best opportunity for recovery while ensuring communities are safe." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-18

  • Add 700 new publicly-funded addiction treatment beds across 11 new treatment centres, 4 of which built in partnership with First Nations

    "A re-elected United Conservative government will build over 700 new publicly-funded addition treatment beds across 11 new treatment centres called recovery communities. Four of these new recovery communities will be built in partnership with First Nations including the Kainai Nation, the Enoch Cree Nation, the Siksika Nation, and the Tsuut’ina Nation." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-17

  • Invest $5M/year to expand resiliency education in schools

    "Resilient Schools works together with First Nations and Métis school communities across Alberta to amplify the voice of youth and create opportunities for educators, Elders, parents, coaches and community members to develop their own strategies to enhance student success." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27

  • Build four new youth mental wellness centres for inpatient mental health and addiction treatment

    "Building four new youth mental wellness centres to provide inpatient mental health and addiction treatment to youth under the age of 18.

       These wellness centres are a new model for healing, recovery, and prevention and would provide 30 treatment spaces each, located in Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer and Lethbridge.

       A re-elected UCP government would invest $15 million in capital and $15 million in operating expenditures over four years.

           By bringing strategic partners together under one roof and providing the personalized, treatment-focused space that they need, they are able to better respond to the challenges presented by mental health concerns, child abuse, child sexual exploitation, and other child and youth related traumas.

           Building these purpose-built spaces reduces unnecessary use of more expensive acute-care beds." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27

We don't have any NDP policies on Drugs and addiction.

Gender-affirming care

We don't have any UCP policies on Gender-affirming care.

NDP

  • Work with Alberta Health and Alberta Health Services to increase timely access to gender-affirming care

Health staffing

We don't have any UCP policies on Health staffing.

NDP

  • Offer $10K signing bonuses to doctors, nurses, and other health professionals
  • Create 10K more post-secondary healthcare spaces
  • Protect healthcare jobs and retain health care workers who already work in Alberta
  • Offer incentives for working in rural or remote communities
  • Double the number of residency spaces that international medical graduates are eligible for, and remove bi-annual language exams if graduates are working in English

Healthcare availability

We don't have any UCP policies on Healthcare availability.

NDP

  • Invest $75M over three years to get, scale, and deploy solutions to healthcare problems

    "The Healthcare Innovation Challenge Fund is a groundbreaking initiative by the Alberta NDP, and is the first of its kind in the province. Through the fund, the Alberta NDP will invest an initial $75 million over the next three years to prioritize the procurement, scaling, and deployment of innovative solutions in healthcare settings across Alberta Health Services." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-19

Hospitals

We don't have any UCP policies on Hospitals.

NDP

  • Build the South Edmonton Hospital

    "We will proceed with construction and explore opportunities to speed up the completion timeline.

    The South Edmonton Hospital will be built according to its original plan for 500 patient beds. We will not scale back operations to cut costs, and we will ensure the hospital is fully staffed as part of our targeted healthcare recruitment strategy and plan to introduce Family Health Teams." — Building a Better Future for Edmonton, retrieved 2023-05-22

  • Expand the Red Deer Regional Hospital, without using a Public-Private Partnership model, and make the construction timeline transparent

    "An Alberta NDP Government will:

    1. Press forward urgently with the expansion of the hospital, and explore any opportunity to speed up the timeline
    2. Recruit and train new healthcare workers to ensure the hospital is fully staffed
    3. Be transparent with the project's timeline and communicate any changes

    The UCP has failed to deliver any substantial progress on expanding the Red Deer Hospital. After nearly four years they have quietly delayed the project even further.

    We will never pursue a P3 construction model for the hospital, as these models only lead to further delays." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-09

  • Plan a North Calgary Health Campus
  • Create a cardiac catheterisation lab at the Chinook Regional Hospital
  • Provide $40M to build a new Stollery Children's Hospital

    "Rachel Notley and the Alberta NDP have pledged $40 million to support the planning and design of a new, stand-alone Stollery Children's Hospital." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-19

  • Staff the Calgary Cancer Centre

    "The Alberta NDP will build the Alberta Cancer Innovation Hub, ensuring Calgary is a leader in cancer care across Canada. The Alberta Cancer Innovation Hub will develop clinical trials and deploy cutting-edge treatments and technologies.

    The Alberta Cancer Innovation Hub is part of a broader commitment to improve research and development in Alberta’s life sciences industries and encourage patenting and commercialization of Alberta-based intellectual property. Most importantly, improve cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment for all Albertans." — Building a Better Future for Calgary, retrieved 2023-05-22

  • Create an Alberta Cancer Innovation Hub
  • Fund a new X-Ray machine in Morinville

"This includes the South Edmonton Hospital, Red Deer Hospital, staffing the Calgary Cancer Centre and Grand Prairie Hospital, planning for a North Calgary Health Campus, a new Stollery Children’s Hospital serving Edmonton all of Northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories, a Cardiac Catheterization Lab at the Chinook Regional Hospital, and a new X-Ray machine in Morinville."

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Mental health

UCP

  • Build 5 new 75-bed mental wellness centres

    "A United Conservative government will also address the lack of inpatient support for mental health treatment in Alberta by building five new 75-bed mental wellness centres. These new centres will add a total of 375 inpatient mental health beds across the province." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-17

  • Invest $20M/year to increase the number of Mental Health Classrooms from 20 to 60

    "Increasing the number of Mental Health Classrooms from 20 to 60 across Alberta by investing $20 million per year.

       Mental Health Classrooms provide clinical mental health support to students with significant mental health needs in their school in a specialized classroom setting.

       Mental Health Classroom teams consist of a mental health therapist, psychiatrist and classroom behavioural specialist. The teams are supported by a health team that includes a nurse, social worker, educational psychologist, speech and language therapist, and occupational therapist.

       The first twenty Mental Health Classrooms were announced in July 2022 as part of a broader investment into Mental Health by the UCP Government.

       The UCP expects an additional $20 million per year for expansion as part of the recent MOU with the government of Canada." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27

  • Invest $4.5M/year to expand the Integrated School Support Program to 22 more high-needs schools

    "Expanding the Integrated School Support Program to an additional twenty-two high-needs schools across the province through a $4.5 million per year investment.

       The Integrated School Support Program (ISSP) provides low intensity mental health support in high-needs schools by partnering social programs like nutrition support, literacy programming, and mental health supports.

       The ISSP is a prevention-based plan first spearheaded by the Calgary Police Service in the fall of 2014. It helps at-risk children by providing them with the necessary supports to thrive both academically and socially.

       ISSP offers a positive police presence in the schools, on-site psychologists, physical education specialists, social workers and health clinicians, as well as breakfast, lunch and afterschool programs at no cost to families." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27

  • Invest $5M/year to expand resiliency education in schools

    "Resilient Schools works together with First Nations and Métis school communities across Alberta to amplify the voice of youth and create opportunities for educators, Elders, parents, coaches and community members to develop their own strategies to enhance student success." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27

  • Build four new youth mental wellness centres for inpatient mental health and addiction treatment

    "Building four new youth mental wellness centres to provide inpatient mental health and addiction treatment to youth under the age of 18.

       These wellness centres are a new model for healing, recovery, and prevention and would provide 30 treatment spaces each, located in Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer and Lethbridge.

       A re-elected UCP government would invest $15 million in capital and $15 million in operating expenditures over four years.

           By bringing strategic partners together under one roof and providing the personalized, treatment-focused space that they need, they are able to better respond to the challenges presented by mental health concerns, child abuse, child sexual exploitation, and other child and youth related traumas.

           Building these purpose-built spaces reduces unnecessary use of more expensive acute-care beds." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27

  • Invest $4M/year to expand Counselling Alberta to provide affordable same-day, no-wait-list counselling sessions for all Albertans

    "Expanding Counselling Alberta to provide same day, no wait list, accessible and affordable counselling sessions for all Albertans by investing $4 million per year.

       Counselling Alberta is a division of the Calgary Counselling Centre that provides virtual counselling across Alberta.

       This expansion of services outside Calgary is made possible through a partnership between the Government of Alberta and Calgary Counselling Centre to address the growing need for mental health services in the province." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27

We don't have any NDP policies on Mental health.

Natal care

UCP

  • Provide $10M to add more obstetrics doctors and create a Midwives Strategy

    "An investment of $10 million over the next two years will help develop a Province-wide Midwives Strategy and provide improved healthcare support for women by adding more obstetrics doctors for communities in need, this will include Lethbridge and other rural and mid-sized cities. These initiatives will assist in reducing the pressure on obstetrics, ERs and primary care, particularly in rural Alberta." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-17

  • Expand newborn screening to include testing for five more conditions

    "The UCP will expand that by five more including:

    · Congenital cytomegalovirus;

    · Argininosuccinic aciduria;

    · Guanidinoacetate methyltransferase deficiency;

    · Mucopolysaccharidosis type 1; and

    · 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA lyase." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-17

We don't have any NDP policies on Natal care.

Primary care

UCP

  • Any medical services or prescriptions currently covered by Alberta Health Insurance will remain so

    '“I want to be clear: under the UCP’s Public Health Care Guarantee, we are committing to all Albertans that under no circumstances will any Albertan ever have to pay out-of-pocket to see their family doctor or to get the medical treatment they need,” said UCP Leaders Danielle Smith. “It means that a UCP government, under my leadership, will not de-list any medical services or prescriptions now covered by Alberta Health Insurance. No exceptions.”' — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-12

    "A re-elected UCP government will continue to ensure Albertans have public access to a family doctor and that no Albertan will ever have to pay out of pocket to see them." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-12

    "As we continue to invest and innovate, to deliver on the reforms needed to move Alberta’s health care system forward, we will only look to add new listed publicly funded health services. We will not de-list any health services currently available." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-12

NDP

  • Provide access to family doctors for all Albertans

    "With the Alberta NDP, if you need a family doctor, you will get a family doctor, and we will never make you pay for this."

  • Create Family Health Teams including doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals, commit $400M to hire 4,000 allied health professionals, and invest $350M to establish 40 family health clinics
  • Provide secure, polycarbonate health cards to every Albertan

Seniors' health and services

NDP

  • Increase homecare by 20K more clients over the next 4 years
  • Support organisations that help seniors with snow shoveling, yard care, transportation, and meal prep
  • Make the Shingrix shingles vaccine available for free to all Albertans receiving the Seniors Benefit, as well as to all Albertans in continuing care or home care

    "The Shingrix vaccine will be made available free of charge to every Albertan who receives the Alberta Seniors Benefit and who wants the vaccine. We will also offer the vaccine to all Albertans in continuing care or are clients of home care." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-09

  • Cover drivers medical exams
  • Reverse cuts to rental assistance

Sexual and reproductive health

We don't have any UCP policies on Sexual and reproductive health.

NDP

  • Provide free, universal access to free prescription contraception

    "This plan would cover oral hormone pills, contraceptive injections, copper and hormonal intrauterine devices, subdermal implants, and Plan B." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-09

Women's health

UCP

  • Provide $10M to the Alberta Women's Health Foundation

    "Finally, a legacy grant to the Alberta Women’s Health Foundation (AWHF) will support women-focused research, advocacy, and care. This $10 million grant will fund research into cervical cancer, heart disease, and other women’s health matters as well as recruit top researchers to the province. The grant will further support advocacy and awareness efforts, including national campaigns and women’s health empowerment initiatives." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-17

We don't have any NDP policies on Women's health.