This is a page from the 2023 Alberta general election.
Health & Healthcare platforms
Here's what the candidates in Drayton Valley-Devon, and their parties, are promising.We don't have any NDP policies on Autism.
Dental care and optometry
We don't have any UCP policies on Dental care and optometry.
We don't have any NDP policies on Dental care and optometry.
SM
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Look at ways to include these benefits into existing AHC for all.
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Nobody should go without dental care
Drugs and addiction
Gender-affirming care
Health staffing
We don't have any UCP policies on Health staffing.
NDP
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Offer $10K signing bonuses to doctors, nurses, and other health professionals
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Create 10K more post-secondary healthcare spaces
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Protect healthcare jobs and retain health care workers who already work in Alberta
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Offer incentives for working in rural or remote communities
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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
SM
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Rehire non-jabbed with no requirements to take any unwanted medical treatment.
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Recruit Healthcare professionals from across the country
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Fast-track current backlog of 69,000 surgeries
Healthcare availability
We don't have any UCP policies on Healthcare availability.
NDP
Hospitals
We don't have any UCP policies on Hospitals.
NDP
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Plan a North Calgary Health Campus
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Create a cardiac catheterisation lab at the Chinook Regional Hospital
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Create an Alberta Cancer Innovation Hub
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Fund a new X-Ray machine in Morinville
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"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
We don't have any NDP policies on Mental health.
Natal care
UCP
We don't have any NDP policies on Natal care.
Primary care
Seniors' health and services
UCP
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Provide a 25% seniors' discount on personal registry services, campsite bookings, and medical driving tests
NDP
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Increase homecare by 20K more clients over the next 4 years
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Support organisations that help seniors with snow shoveling, yard care, transportation, and meal prep
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Cover drivers medical exams
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Reverse cuts to rental assistance
Sexual and reproductive health
Women's health
UCP
We don't have any NDP policies on Women's health.