Election 2020 - Party Policies - Health - Specialist Care
25th Jul 20, 5:55am
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Specialist Care
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- Promote and support multi-disciplinary approaches to hospital care, to maximise opportunities for positive outcomes for patients.
- Provide more specialist outpatient clinics with expanded services.
- Build/refurbish hospitals for optimum acute care when a patient’s condition is beyond community/home care.
- Support smaller ‘community’ hospitals to improve access to minor surgery, specialist outpatient clinics, maternity facilities and rehabilitation services.
- Investigate whether separation of elective and emergency theatre services would reduce delays in surgery due to emergencies.
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- Ensuring everyone requiring elective surgery will have that surgery funded by the Crown within four months.
- Sooner elective surgery so that if you are promised treatment in the standard four months then you will be operated on in four months.
- If the DHB is unable to provide the treatment within four months, DHBs will be required to source another provider to meet that need. This could be either another DHB or a private provider.
- Ensure equitable access to elective surgery by replacing the post code lottery with standard.
- Legislate to create an independent National Cancer Agency to drive better access to diagnosis, treatment and care across New Zealand. This will be separate to the Ministry of Health and District Health Boards.
- Start the process to appoint specialists and proven leaders in the field to run the Agency and provide expert advice to improve outcomes for cancer patients.
- Provide $4m over four years to fund a campaign to lift awareness of the symptoms of gynaecological cancer.
- Ensure that revised, up-to-date clinical guidelines are developed for GPs to help them identify gynaecological cancer earlier, and make improved decisions around diagnosis and referring women for testing.
- Provide up to $12m in funding over four years to cover the increased testing that is likely to result from more awareness and improved clinical guidelines, to ensure that every women in New Zealand who would benefit from a test, is given one.
- Invest $4m over four years to ensure more New Zealand women have access to clinical trials to improve treatments for gynaecological cancers.
- Introducing HPV Self-Test National commits to transitioning to HPV self-tests within our first term to test for cervical cancer. To provide all women in New Zealand have access to an easier more convenient and effective tests for early detection of cervical cancer.
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