Health & Healthcare

Health staffing platforms

Here's what the 2025 Ontario election parties are promising.
We don't have any PC policies on Health staffing.

ONDP
  • Legislate safe nurse-to-patient staffing ratios

    "We will bring in safe nurse-patient ratios for better care and end the reliance on for-profit private nursing agencies that are costing hospitals hundreds of millions of dollars." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Increase the number of nurses, including hiring at least 15,000 nurses over the next three years
  • End reliance on private, for-profit nursing agencies
  • Establish a Northern Command Centre to manage health care worker capacity across the North

    "We will establish a Northern Command Centre to support recruitment, gather data on system capacity, and quickly identify emerging workforce issues." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Increase funding to locum programs and opportunities for educational and targeted skills development in Northern Ontario

    "We will increase funding to locum programs and opportunities for educational and targeted skills development in northern Ontario, building local knowledge and a skillset suited for the unique challenges of medicine in remote communities." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

We don't have any Liberal policies on Health staffing.
We don't have any Green policies on Health staffing.

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