Better Health Outcomes

New Zealand’s well being system is in disaster, with hovering wait lists and emergency division wait instances, plunging childhood immunisation charges, and New Zealanders going through longer delays accessing pressing most cancers therapy or surgical procedure. Our exhausted well being workforce are doing the perfect that they’ll.

For six years, this Government has failed Kiwis on well being. Labour has obsessively focussed on a pricey and bureaucratic restructure of the well being sector in the course of a pandemic whereas permitting each measure of well being outcomes to go backwards.

National will focus relentlessly on outcomes. We will improve well being funding yearly, and shift sources from back-office bureaucrats to the frontline. We will restore specific well being targets to make sure the well being sector is focussed on delivering higher outcomes for key well being priorities.

We will improve funding for most cancers medicines, so New Zealanders have entry to extra of the remedies obtainable in Australia. And we’ll deal with the well being workforce disaster by coaching, retaining and attracting extra medical doctors, nurses and midwives.

Policy highlights

• Restore well being targets to ship higher, sooner and extra dependable healthcare.
• Fund 13 new most cancers remedies and velocity up the approval course of for brand spanking new medicines.
• Improve most cancers administration for breast, ovarian, bowel, and prostate most cancers.
• Extend free postnatal stays for moms of new child infants to 3 days.
• Provide free steady glucose displays to kind 1 diabetics aged below 18.
• Deliver extra nurses, midwives and medical doctors to cut back wait instances and enhance well being outcomes.
• Increase entry to psychological well being providers and develop the psychological well being workforce.

Read National’s full plan for Better Health Outcomes