Election 2017 - Party Policies - Health - Specialist Care
27th May 17, 9:40am
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Specialist Care
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- 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. Some highly specialised services may only be provided by a limited number of hospitals.
- 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.
- Promote more partnerships with primary care providers to reduce the need for hospital appointments.
- Read more here.
- End the ‘post-code lottery’, by implementing standard treatment pathways for cancer care in all DHBs, and ensuring DHBs have the resources they need to deliver the best level of care.
- Develop a National Cancer Plan and develop targets to reduce death rates.
- Oversee a single national cancer clinical trials network so that patients can access clinical trials no matter where they live.
- Streamline cancer care by bringing together the work of the ten tumour standard working groups, four regional cancer networks, and the cancer screening groups under one organisation.
- Prioritise investment in the most effective technology such as the latest radiation treatments.
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- Enable sustainable funding for specialist services to continue to provide information, first response and long-term support and treatment for those affected by sexual violence.
- Read more here.
- Increase the number of elective surgeries to 200,000 a year, ensuring access to life-changing operations.
- Ensure patients are seen by a specialist within four months of referral, and receive operations within four months of booking.
- Rolling out a $78m national bowel screening programme. 700,000 people aged between 60 and 74 will get screened every two years.
- Substantially increase the number of adult cochlear implants, from 40 to 100 per year.
- Provide more audiology and rehabilitation to those who need it.
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- Establish and implement a national strategy for addressing cancer treatment.
- Adequately resource elective surgery and provide additional waiting times funding so as to firmly establish guaranteed maximum waiting times for a range of surgical and specialist treatment.
- Provide funding to assist modern diagnostic equipment like DXA scans for women over 50 years who have experienced a low trauma fracture related to osteoporosis.
- Fully fund and provide world leading maternity-care services (especially in the regions).
- Ensure the transition to Electronic Health Records so that PHO’s, DHB’s and private providers have access to patient records.
- Read more here.
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