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Healthcare platforms

Here's what the candidates in Miramichi Bay-Neguac, and their parties, are promising.

Air quality

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Green

  • Create an Indoor Air Quality Act for provincially-funded buildings

    "Protect students, long-term care residents and patients at hospitals by creating an Indoor Air Quality Act for provincially funded buildings." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Ensure homeowners with an annual combined gross household income under $100K are eligible for funding for radon gas remediation

    "Develop a province-wide radon testing action plan, ensuring that homeowners with an annual combined gross household income under $100,000 are eligible for funding for radon gas remediation." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Liberal

  • Require all new schools, hospitals, long-term care homes, and other public buildings have modern air filtration, heating, & cooling systems

    "Our government will require that all new schools, hospitals, long-term care homes, and other public buildings have modern air filtration, heating, and cooling systems, following ASHRAE 241. For existing infrastructure, we will add suitable air filtration and cooling units." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

We don't have any PC policies on Air quality.

Cancer

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We don't have any Green policies on Cancer.

Liberal

  • Implement at-home pap tests for cervical cancer screening
We don't have any PC policies on Cancer.

Drugs and addiction

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Green

  • Create new residential rehabilitation facilities for treating addiction

    "Establish new residential rehabilitation facilities to meet the demand for treatment of addictions." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Increase the proportion of the Department of Health's budget that is spent on mental health and addiction service to 12%

Liberal

  • Invest in treatment beds throughout the province

    "Invest in treatment beds throughout the province, ensure there is a bed for anyone who wants it when they want it, and ensure that there is an optional continuum of care for those exiting treatment." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Ensure an optional continuum of care for those exiting treatment

PC

  • Compel people into drug treatment if they pose a threat to themselves or others

    "Today, Premier Blaine Higgs reaffirmed the Progressive Conservative Party’s commitment to tackling the addiction crisis in New Brunswick through the introduction of a new Compassionate Intervention Act. This legislation, if passed, will allow the government to intervene and compel individuals into drug treatment when they pose a threat to themselves or others, offering much-needed rehabilitation services for individuals living on the streets or whose addiction has left them homeless." — pcnb.ca, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Deny any new supervised injection sites

    "A re-elected PC government will not approve any new supervised injection sites across the province.

    We will focus on a recovery model to treat addictions and start investing more in treatment facilities.

    We care about people too much to leave them on the street, ravaged with addiction"

    pcnb.ca, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Build a new 50-bed rehabilitation facility to provide long-term treatment and recovery

    "Building a new 50-bed rehabilitation facility to provide long-term treatment and recovery services for those suffering from addiction." — pcnb.ca, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Create a Therapeutic Living Unit at the new provincial jail in Minto, offering treatment-focused programmes

    "Creating a Therapeutic Living Unit at the new provincial jail in Minto, offering treatment-focused programs for individuals involved in the criminal justice system due to addiction." — pcnb.ca, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Launch a virtual opioid dependence programme to provide faster and more accessible treatment options

    "Launching a virtual opioid dependence program, providing faster and more accessible treatment options across the province." — pcnb.ca, retrieved 2024-10-12

Family doctors and primary care

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Green

  • Enhance doctors' practices with fully-funded collaborative team-based family practices

    "Give every New Brunswicker a permanent health care team in their community, by enhancing doctors’ practices with properly funded collaborative team-based family practices and expanding community health centres, including a funding model for nurse practitioners and other health professionals." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Expand community health centres
  • Create a funding model for nurse practitioners and other health professionals
  • Ensure primary care providers have adequate administrative support

    "Ensure primary care providers have adequate administrative support to free them from time-consuming paperwork so they can see more patients." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Liberal

  • Establish at least 30 community care clinics to offer local, collaborative care

    "Establish and support at least 30 community care clinics that offer local, collaborative care from a variety of health professionals in one place when you need it." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

    "Provide dedicated non-clinical staff and administrative support to these clinics to ensure healthcare providers are focused on patients, not paperwork." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Improve the compensation model for doctors and primary care providers, including fair pay for performing after-hours care

    "Improve the compensation model for doctors and primary care providers, including fair pay for those who perform after-hours care." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

Gender-affirming care

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Green

  • Support specialised training and establish dedicated roles to provide transgender healthcare

    "Support specialized training and establish dedicated roles to enhance transgender healthcare." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

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

Health administration

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Green

  • Make Public Health New Brunswick an arms-length body, directed by the Chief Medical Officer of Health

    "Make Public Health New Brunswick an arms length body, directed by the Chief Medical Officer of Health, so it can effectively keep New Brunswickers healthy." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Restore authority of local hospital administrators to manage emergency and acute care services

    "Enhance hospital care by restoring the authority of local hospital administrators to manage emergency and acute care services." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Set up locally-elected community health boards to decentralise the management of hospitals and clinics

    "Decentralize the management of hospitals and clinics by establishing locally elected community health boards that can determine services based on community needs and expectations." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Liberal

  • Invest in technology, including centralised waitlists and digital records management systems

    "Invest in modern technology, including centralized waitlists and standardized digital records management systems, to facilitate the seamless and secure exchange of patient information among healthcare providers, regions, the regional health authorities, and community care clinics." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Make the public health office independent

    "Make our public health office independent to ensure unbiased and evidenced-based decision- making and research are communicated to all New Brunswickers." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

We don't have any PC policies on Health administration.

Health coverage

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Green

  • Provide public funding for essential medical supplies, such as diabetes test strips, ostomy bags, and enteral nutrition supplies
  • Publicly fund psychotherapy
We don't have any Liberal policies on Health coverage.
We don't have any PC policies on Health coverage.

Health staffing

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Green

  • Provide competitive salaries, retention bonuses, and benefits, comparable to those in Nova Scotia and PEI

    "Retain and recruit health care professionals through competitive salaries, retention bonuses, and benefits comparable to those in Nova Scotia and PEI." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Offer full tuition bursaries for students in medical and nursing school
  • Provide settlement services to new doctors and nurse practitioners

Liberal

  • Create a multi-pronged plan to improve working conditions, prioritise supports, and increase retention

    "Create a multi-pronged plan developed for all healthcare professionals to improve working conditions, prioritize support for their wellness, and increase retention." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Provide immediate retention payments for nurses

    "Immediately deliver retention payments to show our respect for nurses and examine other tools that aid retention and recruitment." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Work with Dalhousie Medicine NB and Centre de formation médicale du N-B to create more training and residency seats
  • Work with regulators to improve foreign credential recognition for nurses, doctors, and other healthcare professionals

    "Leverage existing healthcare knowledge by working with regulators to improve foreign credential recognition for nurses, doctors, and other healthcare professionals already in our province and looking to call New Brunswick home." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Review and expand healthcare professionals' scope of practice to optimise their roles

PC

  • Cover 50% of Registered Nurses' Long Term Disability premiums for the next two years
  • Establish a dedicated working group to address working conditions in the nursing profession

    "Improving Working Conditions: A dedicated working group will be established to address working conditions in the nursing profession. Co-chaired by a government representative and a nurse with front-line experience, this group will directly report to Premier Higgs, ensuring that concerns are heard and meaningful changes are implemented." — pcnb.ca, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Expand the scope of practice for nurse practitioners, registered nurses, registered psychiatric nurses, paramedics, and pharmacists

Hospitals

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We don't have any Green policies on Hospitals.
We don't have any PC policies on Hospitals.

Indigenous health

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We don't have any Green policies on Indigenous health.

Liberal

  • Invite First Nations leaders to create a bilateral forum and ongoing process for achieving culturally safe and equitable healthcare

    "Invite First Nations leaders to create a bilateral forum and ongoing process with the goal of achieving culturally safe and equitable healthcare for Indigenous people in New Brunswick." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Support and work with First Nations healthcare leaders on the Health Transformation design and implementation process

    "Support, collaborate, and engage with First Nations healthcare leaders in achieving their Health Transformation design and implementation process." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Work with First Nations to create and implement mental health and addiction programmes with culturally safe service and practice standards

    "Work in partnership with First Nations to co-create and implement mental health and addiction programs that meet culturally safe First Nation service and practice standards of care." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

We don't have any PC policies on Indigenous health.

Long-term care

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Green

  • Ensure seniors waiting in hospitals for placement in a nursing home or special care home receive equivalent services and activities
  • Index the Comfort and Clothing Allowance for long-term care residents to the cost of living
  • Cap costs for residents of special care homes

    "Cap costs for residents of special care homes, as is done in nursing homes." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Ensure residents in long-term care facilities receive 4.1 hours of care per day
  • Ensure all seniors have access to long-term care in their preferred official language

Liberal

  • Expand the Nursing Homes Without Walls model

    "Expand the Nursing Homes Without Walls model and ensure that those who want to stay at home can do so for as long as possible." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Invest in wages for personal support workers and resident attendants to fill staffing gaps

    "Ensure all existing nursing home beds are accessible by filling staffing gaps by investing in wages for personal support workers and resident attendants ultimately resulting in increased hours of care." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Set sector standards and transparent reporting practices, with a robust system for complaints

    "Establish sector standards and transparent reporting practices with a robust system for complaints that leads to quick responses and better overall delivery to ensure our seniors continue to receive excellent care." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Increase the comfort and clothing allowance for seniors from $150 to $200
We don't have any PC policies on Long-term care.

Mental health

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Green

  • Publicly fund psychotherapy
  • Provide counselling service through community health clinics
  • Increase the proportion of the Department of Health's budget that is spent on mental health and addiction service to 12%

Liberal

  • Include mental health professionals in as many community care clinics as possible

    "Ensure mental health professionals are located in as many community care clinics as possible to ensure mental health is being treated as primary care and reduce the frequency of acute mental health challenges." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Increase residency seats for psychiatrists and psychologists
  • Develop a retention and training plan for mental health professionals, specifically within schools

    "Increase residency seats for psychiatrists and clinical psychologists, and develop a retention and training plan for psychologists, counsellors, and other mental health professionals, specifically within schools." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Invest in community-based case management approaches for front-line service providers

    "Invest in community-based case management approaches for front-line service providers currently providing mental health support." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Create a Mental Health Advocate position

    "Create a Mental Health Advocate position to ensure New Brunswickers struggling with mental health and navigating the system have a champion." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Expand mental health court access

    "Expand mental health court access to ensure the promotion of alternative pathways for justice." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

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

Natal care

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Green

  • Expand midwifery services across the province

    "Expand midwifery services across the province, building on the success of Horizon’s midwifery clinic in Fredericton." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Liberal

  • Expand midwifery services
  • Provide funding for training midwives
We don't have any PC policies on Natal care.

Neurodegenerative diseases

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Green

  • Launch a public inquiry into high rates of neurodegenerative disease among New Brunswickers
We don't have any Liberal policies on Neurodegenerative diseases.
We don't have any PC policies on Neurodegenerative diseases.

Seniors

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Green

  • Enact a Dementia Strategy

    "Enact a Dementia Strategy to reduce the number of seniors requiring placement in long-term care, reduce the incidence of dementia, and better support those with early onset dementia." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Index the Comfort and Clothing Allowance for long-term care residents to the cost of living
  • Reinstate the Primary Informal Caregiver Benefit
  • Provide funding for homecare services through the Nursing Homes Without Walls programme

    "Provide funding for homecare services through the Nursing Homes Without Walls program to supplement existing services." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Improve home repair and renovation programmes

    "To enable seniors to stay in their homes, improve home repair and renovation program." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Liberal

  • Review and update the process and standards for homecare allocation
  • Increase wages for homecare workers
  • Increase the comfort and clothing allowance for seniors from $150 to $200
  • Create a $250/mo caregiver benefit for unpaid and informal caregivers of aging family members

    "Implement a caregiver benefit for unpaid and informal caregivers of aging family members, giving caregivers $250 a month to recognize their contribution." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Develop and implement an Alzheimer's and dementia support strategy

    "Work with communities to develop and implement a strategy that better supports those living with Alzheimer’s and dementia." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Provide the RSV vaccine for free for seniors and vulnerable people
  • Fund safety and accessibility retrofits for seniors and people with disabilities who wish to stay in their homes

    "Provide funding for safety and accessibility retrofits for New Brunswick seniors and people with disabilities who wish to stay in their homes." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

We don't have any PC policies on Seniors.

Sexual and reproductive health

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Green

  • Establish women's health centres to address women's unique needs and reduce barriers to abortion services

Liberal

  • Fund one round of IVF

    "Increase access to fertility treatments by funding one round of IVF, which is in line with jurisdictions across Canada."

  • Make contraception free
  • Ensure people can better access abortion services by amending regulation 84-20

    "Ensure New Brunswickers can better access abortion services by amending regulation 84–20." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

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

Tobacco products

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Green

  • Increase the legal age for purchasing tobacco to 21
We don't have any Liberal policies on Tobacco products.
We don't have any PC policies on Tobacco products.