The Liberals
The Rankin Liberals released their healthcare platform Tuesday.
Iain Rankin announced a new, $5 million a year office of physician recruitment and retention.
Rankin said it will be staffed by international physician recruitment experts who will be sent around the world on recruitment trips.
“Our healthcare platform builds on initiatives in Budget 2021,” he said. “And charts the way forward, providing Nova Scotians with quality care, skilled healthcare professionals and enhanced access.”
Rankin also promised a $6 million expansion to virtual care, and $4 million a year for eight new mental health walk-in clinics.
The Progressive Conservatives
Tory Leader Tim Houston announced a plan to help people suffering from chronic illness Tuesday.
He said five per cent of patients require 70 per cent of healthcare spending in the province, many of those are people suffering from chronic illness.
Houston said a PC government will create a Chronic Illness Treatment and Prevention Program for an in-home treatment model for those with chronic illnesses.
“We are putting forward solutions, and that means identifying and preventing problems before they start,” he said. “The band-aid, reactionary healthcare system isn’t working.”
Houston said the program is based on aggressive self-management of chronic illnesses.
He said similar programs cut ER visits in half and lead to over 60 per cent fewer nights spent in hospital.
Houston also said the program will save $21 for every $1 spent.
The New Democratic Party
NDP Leader Gary Burrill was talking climate change in Halifax Tuesday.
Burrill said an NDP government will set greenhouse gas emission targets to 50 per cent below 1990 levels by 2030.
“Our planet and the young people whose lives are most impacted deserve a government that will put their needs front and centre,” he said. “The NDP will deliver something better for young people by bringing real change to the climate crisis.”
Burrill said that’s equivalent of taking 240,000 cars off the road.
