Election 2020 - Party Policies - Health
25th Jul 20, 5:55am
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- Permanently increase funding to public health by 50% to $660 million a year.
- Abolish the 12 Public Health Units around the country and merge them into a single National Public Health Service, with its own human health border inspection service and a health surveillance capability independent of the WHO. This Service would manage an expanded national PPE stockpile and audit DHBs' and social care operators' pandemic plans.
- Read more here and here.
- Ensure that all New Zealanders live in a healthy environment.
- Reorient health service priorities to give much greater emphasis to improving health and preventing illness, through public health services, and treating illness in community-based primary care.
- Prioritise those population groups with the lowest health status, such as the elderly, women, children, Māori, Pasifika, refugee and migrant, rainbow communities, people with low socio-economic status and people with disabilities, as part of ensuring equal health outcomes for all.
- Progressively expand the role and functions of the Health Promotion Agency to enable it to become an authoritative policy adviser, planner and funder of evidence-based health promotion services.
- Ensure pregnant people have a choice of Lead Maternity Care (LMC) providers that reflects cultural and ethnic diversity, and that those LMCs are appropriately funded and resourced to support the wellbeing of pregnant people and their families throughout their pregnancy, especially women with high needs and in communities currently without sufficient LMC provision.
- Review the Primary Health Organisation funding formula to enable children to have access to all health services at no cost.
- Read more here and here.
- Making mental health support available to all primary and intermediate school age students in the country, and continued roll out of nurses in secondary schools.
- Additional $200m to reduce waiting lists.
- Significant funding boost for PHARMAC to ensure more medicines can be funded for more New Zealanders.
- Doubling the number of cochlear implants.
- Dental health grants of up to $1000 for those on low incomes and 20 additional mobile dental clinics.
- Read more here.
- Increase funding to PHARMAC and create a rare disorder fund worth $20 million over four years and a dedicated cancer drug fund worth $200 million over four years.
- Institute an elective surgery commitment that means ever Kiwi that needs elective surgery will have it done within four months of the decision to treat.
- Fully fund a primary care social worker-type navigator for every General Practice to increase frontline health services.
- Restore and update National Health Targets.
- Start a request for proposal process to establish a third graduate entry medical school focused on retaining General Practitioners in rural areas.
- Better protect New Zealanders from Covid-19 with a dedicated Border Protection Agency.
- Increase funding for the number of cochlear implants from 40 to 100.
- Improve cancer management with a new cancer agency, accelerated bowel screening, local radiotherapy units and faster cancer treatment targets.
- Require DHBs to annually construct and report against a Māori health strategy to help address inequities.
- Read more here.
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