Health & Healthcare platforms

Here's what the candidates in Eglinton—Lawrence, and their parties, are promising.

Drugs and addiction

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PC

  • Hold landlords liable for drugs produced or trafficked on their property

    "Supporting strict and severe mandatory minimum sentences for criminals convicted of drug trafficking, while ensuring landlords are held liable for knowingly hosting illicit drug production and trafficking sites." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • Give new powers to police and border agents to confiscate property they determine to be used for producing illicit drugs

    "Working with the federal government to enact new authorities for the RCMP, border agents and regional and local law enforcement to identify, detect and confiscate pill presses, precursor chemicals and lab equipment if law enforcement determine that the intent is to produce fentanyl or other illicit drugs." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • Increase inspections of point-of-origin containers from China at shipping yards, ports, rail yards, and airports

    "Increase inspections of all point-of-origin containers at shipping yards, ports, rail yards and airports from China, the frequent source of fentanyl and other illicit drugs that are plaguing Canadian and American communities." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

Liberal

  • Provide wraparound support for addiction recovery, including supportive housing units

    "Provide wraparound support to help people recover from addictions, including rapidly building supportive housing units." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Expand treatment, recovery, and rehabilitation

    "Act decisively and collaboratively with those on the frontline to bring deaths caused by opioid use down to zero in four years through expanded treatment, recovery and rehabilitation." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

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

Family doctors and primary care

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We don't have any PC policies on Family doctors and primary care.

Liberal

  • Attract, recruit, and retain 3,100 family doctors by 2029

    "Give every person in Ontario access to a family doctor by attracting, recruiting, retaining and integrating 3,100 family doctors by 2029." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Double the number of medical school spots and residency positions by creating two new schools and expanding capacity at existing ones

    "Create two new medical schools and expand capacity in existing medical schools, doubling the number of medical school spots and residency positions." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Deliver team-based care with evening and weekend appointments, integrated home care for seniors, and mental health services for youth

    "Deliver team-based care with evening and weekend appointments, integrated home care for seniors, and accessible mental health services for children, youth and teenagers." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Speed up the integration of internationally-trained doctors over the next four years

    "Accelerate the process to integrate at least 1,200 qualified and experienced internationally trained doctors over the next four years through Practice Ready Ontario." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Introduce centralised referral systems with patient portals
  • Implement interoperable electronic medical records

    "Eliminate fax machines, enhance virtual care, introduce centralized referral systems with patient portals and implement interoperable electronic medical records to let doctors and other healthcare professionals focus on patients instead of paperwork." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Provide incentives for doctors to work in rural and northern communities

    "Incentivize family doctors to serve in rural and northern communities and mentor the next generation to prevent future shortages." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Bring nurse practitioners into the public system and ban private-pay nurse practitioner clinics
We don't have any Green policies on Family doctors and primary care.

Francophone health

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We don't have any PC policies on Francophone health.
We don't have any Green policies on Francophone health.

Health administration and privatisation

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

Liberal

  • Investigate and audit the previous government's administration and funding of healthcare

    "Investigate Ford’s privatization plans, including a full review of Health Minister Sylvia Jones’ mandate letters and audit how Ontario is using the more than $20 billion in federal health transfers it receives every year." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

We don't have any Green policies on Health administration and privatisation.

Health staffing

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

Liberal

  • Pay nurses, PSWs, and other supportive healthcare workers a living wage

    "Help hospitals hire and retain the staff they need by paying nurses, PSWs and other supportive healthcare workers a living wage and providing them with additional training and professional development opportunities to stay in the public system." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Provide nurses, PSWs, and other supportive healthcare workers with additional training and professional development opportunities

    "Help hospitals hire and retain the staff they need by paying nurses, PSWs and other supportive healthcare workers a living wage and providing them with additional training and professional development opportunities to stay in the public system." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Get rid of wage discrepancies between hospitals, in-home care, and long-term care

    "Eliminate wage discrepancy across the system, regardless of whether you work for a hospital, in-home care or in long-term care." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Regulate temporary nursing agencies

    "Crackdown on Ford’s for-profit healthcare by regulating temporary nursing agencies." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Offer a $150,000 bonus to nurses and doctors who return to the province from practising medicine in the States

    "Offer a $150,000 bonus to patriotic nurses and doctors who are currently practicing in the U.S. but want to come home and support our publicly-funded healthcare system." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Provide opportunities for skilled trades and health care workers through union-led training programmes
  • Bring nurse practitioners into the public system and ban private-pay nurse practitioner clinics
We don't have any Green policies on Health staffing.

Long-term care

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We don't have any PC policies on Long-term care.

Liberal

  • Repeal Bill 7, which charged hospitals if they did not place discharged patients into long-term care homes

    "Repeal the coercive Bill 7 and ensure LTCs are held accountable for mismanagement, non-compliance, and neglect of direct care under a four-hour minimum standard per resident, per day." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Set a four-hour-per-day minimum standard of care for long-term care residents

    "Repeal the coercive Bill 7 and ensure LTCs are held accountable for mismanagement, non-compliance, and neglect of direct care under a four-hour minimum standard per resident, per day." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

We don't have any Green policies on Long-term care.

Mental health

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

Liberal

  • Provide universal mental healthcare under OHIP

    "Introduce universal mental healthcare under OHIP by expanding the Ontario Structured Psychotherapy Program, covering conditions like anxiety, depression, and eating disorders, hiring more social workers, and defining standards and coverage so that all people in Ontario have a basic form of coverage they can count on." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Double funding for Mobile Crisis Intervention Teams

    "Connect people to mental health resources and community support by establishing the CARE Fund (Crisis Assistance and Response Enhancement Fund) to double investment in Mobile Crisis Intervention Teams." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

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

Seniors' health and wellbeing

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We don't have any PC policies on Seniors' health and wellbeing.

Liberal

  • Increase home care funding by 25%, and guarantee needs-based home care through Family Health Teams

    "Guarantee needs-based home care through Family Health Teams, boosting annual home care funding by 25%." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Create a Seniors' Home Care Tax Credit worth up to 25% of up to $10,000 in yearly medical expenses

    "Help seniors age at home gracefully by creating a Seniors’ Home Care Tax Credit, saving up to 25% of up to $10,000 in medical expenses a year." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

We don't have any Green policies on Seniors' health and wellbeing.