Election year:
2023
Political party:
TOP
Associated politicians:
Policy:
Health
- The Teal Card will deliver fully-funded healthcare for young people.
- Strengthen workforce retention of all healthcare workers by ensuring they have fair liveable wages and safer hour rosters.
- Increase placements at medical, nursing and dentistry schools.
- Introduce an accelerated post-graduate medical programme for people who have completed clinical or science degrees.
- Support a fully funded ambulance service.
- Review funding model for primary care to empower more GP practices to provide fully funded care in the community (e.g. cervical screening and minor skin surgery).
- Support Te Whatu Ora to provide public GP practices in under-served rural areas that do not currently have a primary care provider.
- Restrict the sale of vapes to pharmacies.
- Require vape packets to be hidden from the public.
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