Here’s facts on what Kenney said about healthcare and he’s right. He wants to move funds from administration to front line healthcare staff.
No cuts to frontline healthcare staff.
“Within 30 days of taking office,” said Kenney, “a UCP government will commission a comprehensive performance review of Alberta Health Services, to reallocate capital significantly away from administration, to delivery of front-line services.”
Kenney said that the Review would be looking for the opinions of front-line employees of the AHS, who are most familiar with daily operations:
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“Supporting a universal, comprehensive health-care system is a core part of the UCP’s policy declaration agreed at our founding conference,” said leader Jason Kenney. “It is the mechanism through which we will achieve a world-class system with improved quality of life for all Albertans.”
Kenney added that a UCP government would however, be looking for more value from the system.
“We shall be looking for efficiencies,” he said. “Under the NDP, our costs are up but so are our wait-times. That’s got to change: The Canadian Institute for Health Information reports that on a per capita basis, we have the highest age adjusted health-care costs in Canada. By that metric we’re spending 38% percent more than B.C., but our wait times on key procedures such as knee and hip replacements are longer than ever: It used to be a 113 day wait for knee surgery. Now it’s 143 days. We need to find out why and fix that.”
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