This is a page from the 2024 New Brunswick general election.
Healthcare platforms
Here's what the candidates in Saint Croix, and their parties, are promising.Cancer
We don't have any PC policies on Cancer.
We don't have any Green policies on Cancer.
Liberal
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Implement at-home pap tests for cervical cancer screening
Drugs and addiction
Family doctors and primary care
PC
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Expand the scope of practice for nurse practitioners, registered nurses, registered psychiatric nurses, paramedics, and pharmacists
Green
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Expand community health centres
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Create a funding model for nurse practitioners and other health professionals
Liberal
Troy Lyons
Liberal candidate in your district-
Create a Collaborative Healthcare Clinic in St. Stephen in 2025.
Gender-affirming care
We don't have any PC policies on Gender-affirming care.
Green
We don't have any Liberal policies on Gender-affirming care.
Health administration
Health coverage
We don't have any PC policies on Health coverage.
Green
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Provide public funding for essential medical supplies, such as diabetes test strips, ostomy bags, and enteral nutrition supplies
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Publicly fund psychotherapy
We don't have any Liberal policies on Health coverage.
Health staffing
PC
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Cover 50% of Registered Nurses' Long Term Disability premiums for the next two years
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Expand the scope of practice for nurse practitioners, registered nurses, registered psychiatric nurses, paramedics, and pharmacists
Green
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Offer full tuition bursaries for students in medical and nursing school
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Provide settlement services to new doctors and nurse practitioners
Liberal
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Work with Dalhousie Medicine NB and Centre de formation médicale du N-B to create more training and residency seats
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Review and expand healthcare professionals' scope of practice to optimise their roles
Troy Lyons
Liberal candidate in your district-
Create a plan for healthcare professionals to improve working conditions, prioritize support for their wellness, and increase retention.
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Immediately deliver retention payments to show our respect for nurses and examine other tools that aid retention and recruitment.
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Work with communities to ensure local realities are respected and factored into any plan to retain and recruit healthcare professionals.
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Improve the compensation model for doctors and primary care providers, including fair pay for those who perform after-hours care.
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Work with Dalhousie Medicine NB and Centre de formation médicale du Nouveau-Brunswick to create more training and residency seats.
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Implement innovative approaches to recruit healthcare professionals, including nurses and doctors.
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Work with regulators to improve foreign credential recognition healthcare professionals already in our province.
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Review and expand healthcare professionals’ scope of practice to optimize their roles.
Hospitals
We don't have any PC policies on Hospitals.
We don't have any Green policies on Hospitals.
Liberal
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Increase the time that operating rooms are open
Troy Lyons
Liberal candidate in your district-
Invest in technology, including standardized digital records management systems to facilitate patient information among care providers.
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Use hospitals to their fullest potential by increasing the time that operating rooms are open.
Indigenous health
We don't have any PC policies on Indigenous health.
We don't have any Green policies on Indigenous health.
Liberal
Long-term care
We don't have any PC policies on Long-term care.
Green
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Ensure seniors waiting in hospitals for placement in a nursing home or special care home receive equivalent services and activities
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Index the Comfort and Clothing Allowance for long-term care residents to the cost of living
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Ensure residents in long-term care facilities receive 4.1 hours of care per day
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Ensure all seniors have access to long-term care in their preferred official language
Liberal
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Increase the comfort and clothing allowance for seniors from $150 to $200
Mental health
We don't have any PC policies on Mental health.
Green
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Publicly fund psychotherapy
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Provide counselling service through community health clinics
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Increase the proportion of the Department of Health's budget that is spent on mental health and addiction service to 12%
Liberal
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Increase residency seats for psychiatrists and psychologists
Troy Lyons
Liberal candidate in your district-
Ensure mental health professionals are located in as many community care clinics as possible.
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Increase residency seats for psychiatrists and clinical psychologists, and develop a retention and training plan within schools
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Invest in community-based case management approaches for front-line service providers currently providing mental health support.
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Create a Mental Health Advocate position to ensure New Brunswickers struggling with mental health and navigating the system have a champion.
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Expand mental health court access to ensure the promotion of alternative pathways for justice.
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Work with First Nations to co-create & implement mental health and addiction programs that meet culturally safe practice standards of care.
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Invest in treatment beds throughout the province and ensure that there is an optional continuum of care for those exiting treatment.
Natal care
Neurodegenerative diseases
We don't have any PC policies on Neurodegenerative diseases.
Green
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Launch a public inquiry into high rates of neurodegenerative disease among New Brunswickers
We don't have any Liberal policies on Neurodegenerative diseases.
Seniors
We don't have any PC policies on Seniors.
Green
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Index the Comfort and Clothing Allowance for long-term care residents to the cost of living
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Reinstate the Primary Informal Caregiver Benefit
Liberal
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Review and update the process and standards for homecare allocation
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Increase wages for homecare workers
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Increase the comfort and clothing allowance for seniors from $150 to $200
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Provide the RSV vaccine for free for seniors and vulnerable people
Sexual and reproductive health
Tobacco products
We don't have any PC policies on Tobacco products.
Green
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Increase the legal age for purchasing tobacco to 21
We don't have any Liberal policies on Tobacco products.