Election 2023 - Health Policy
Act
Spokesperson:
Brooke van Velden
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policy here
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Brooke van Velden
- Increase GP funding by 13%, the equivalent of 2.5 million GP visits per year.
- Create an easier pathway for doctors trained in comparable overseas jurisdictions to practise in New Zealand. Currently, even a top Harvard doctor would have to be supervised for 6-18 months before being allowed to independently practise.
- Enable physician assistants to take on less complex tasks to take pressure off GPs.
- Give the Minister of Health the ability to override unnecessary red tape and bureaucracy.
- Increase the resilience of the healthcare system with intelligent forecasting of future requirements, improving upon current simplistic models.
- Establish Mental Health and Addiction NZ, a standalone agency on a national scale which would empower patients to choose between a range of providers rather than simply accepting what Health NZ offers.
- ACT would establish Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) with large, global infrastructure developers and investors to build and upgrade our hospitals and healthcare facilities.
- Getting rid of the race-based Māori Health Authority
- Ending the use of race to prioritise surgical waitlists
- Stopping pharmacy initiatives only accessible to Māori and Pasifika
- An end to giving out race-based taxpayer-funded freebies – like prezzy cards for pregnant Māori women.
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Green Party
Spokesperson:
Ricardo Menéndez March
Chlöe Swarbrick
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policy here
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Ricardo Menéndez March
Chlöe Swarbrick
- Reconfigure our health system towards recognising and acting on oppressive and intersecting biases and the knowledge and skills required to work with affected communities.
- Support the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission to transform mental and emotional wellbeing care, monitor services, and lead a whole of government approach that hold it to account.
- Increase the affordability of healthy foods and restrict the marketing, distribution and affordability of unhealthy and processed foods and beverages.
- Provide universal, free and accessible diagnosis, treatment and management for all illnesses and injuries.
- Invest in and ensure timely and equitable access to the most up-to-date research, procedures, medicines, diagnostics, vaccines and other health technologies.
- Free annual check-ups and cleanings available to everyone in their local community.
- Free dental care, such as fillings, sealants, and tooth removals for anyone who needs them.
- Mobile dental vans, portable clinics, and funding for community dental clinics, including on marae, so no one has to travel long distances to look after their teeth.
- Specialist care for people when they’re in significant pain, require oral surgery or need complex treatment.
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Labour
Spokesperson:
Ayesha Verrall
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policy here
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Ayesha Verrall
- Expand free basic dental care to those under 30 years old.
- Cervical screening free to all women and people with a cervix aged 25 – 69 years.
- Labour will rebuild Hawke's Bay Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Hospital.
- Labour will fund more medicines for more New Zealanders by investing over $1 billion of new funding into Pharmac if re-elected.
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National
Spokesperson:
Shane Reti
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policy here
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Shane Reti
- Extend free breast cancer screening for those aged up to 74 years.
- A National Government will pay for 13 cancer treatments that are helping extend survival rates in Australia, by making them available to patients in New Zealand.
- Shorter stays in emergency department.
- Faster cancer treatment.
- Improved immunisation.
- Shorter wait times for first specialist assessment.
- Shorter wait times for surgery.
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New Zealand First
Spokesperson:
Winston Peters
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policy here
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Winston Peters
- Under New Zealand First vaccine mandates will end.
- We will meet St John funding demands, we will ensure Plunket is funded to do their job properly, we will fund Mike King’s Gumboot Friday charity. We will ensure Rescue Helicopters and Surf Lifesaving NZ are properly funded.
- We will ensure Pharmac has more funds to get the medication to the people that need it most.
- New Zealand First will repeal the Therapeutic Products Act.
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TOP
Spokesperson:
Raf Manji
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policy here
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Raf Manji
- 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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Te Pāti Māori
Spokesperson:
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer
Rawiri Waititi
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policy here
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Debbie Ngarewa-Packer
Rawiri Waititi
- Establish A Maori Health Funding Authority so Maori are in control of the health spending for Maori.
- Introduce a Maori health card so Maori are in control of the health service they need.
- Establish A Comprehensive Kaupapa Māori Mental Health Service.
- Drop Māori Cancer Screening By 10 years.
- Empower and resource Māori to lead our own Covid-19 response.
- Establish an independent statutory Māori Pandemic Response Group.
- Abolish Government mandates.
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