1. Back to My Plan for Saskatchewan

The Saskatchewan NDP is getting healthcare out of last place with our comprehensive plan to hire more doctors and nurses, improve emergency services, and ensure timely access to care.

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Hiring More Healthcare Workers

The Saskatchewan NDP will invest in hiring more doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals. The Grow Your Own Strategy will focus on training and retaining healthcare workers from Saskatchewan, ensuring local talent fills critical roles.

2

Improving Emergency Services

Emergency care will be prioritized by reopening Saskatoon City Hospital’s emergency room 24/7. The NDP will also launch an online dashboard to provide real-time information on emergency room wait times.

3

Mental Health and Addictions Care

The Saskatchewan NDP will increase funding for mental health and addictions services, including more counselling and early intervention programs. We will also expand the Rapid Access Counselling program to reach more people in need.

Commitments for Change

It’s time to get Saskatchewan’s healthcare out of last place. Carla Beck and the Saskatchewan NDP will act to deliver better healthcare. We will invest $1.1 billion in new healthcare funding over the next four years which will allow us to fulfill the following commitments:

Staffing Up, Training Up

  • Hire more doctors, nurses, paramedics and healthcare professionals to work on the front lines and at the bedside.
  • Bring in a Grow Your Own Strategy to train more healthcare workers here in Saskatchewan to work in Saskatchewan – with a focus on hard-to-recruit positions.
  • Create more permanent full-time healthcare positions to ensure frontline workers can stay in their communities and phase out Scott Moe’s costly contract positions.
  • Retain the healthcare workers already on the frontlines by treating them with respect and ensuring they have the tools they need to do their jobs.

Emergency Services

  • Increase staffing to keep emergency rooms open across Saskatchewan.
  • Relieve pressure on Saskatoon emergency rooms, reduce wait times and improve healthcare by reopening the emergency room in Saskatoon City Hospital 24/7.
  • Help paramedics to get out of waiting rooms and back on the road through modernizing the Ambulance Act.
  • Share information with Saskatchewan people when there are unplanned emergency room closures by launching an online dashboard.

Listening to Local Voices

  • Respect healthcare workers and ensure they are valued by bringing in a different approach than the Sask. Party and ending the culture of fear and reprisals.
  • Create a Health Human Resources Roundtable to bring together all key players to assess the current workforce and plan for the future.
  • Launch the nursing taskforce that the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses has been calling for for more than two years.
  • Invest in Community Health Advisory Networks so local communities will be heard in healthcare decision-making.

Family Doctors, Cancer Care, and Women’s Health

  • Provide people with timely access to life-saving tests and scans by investing in diagnostic equipment in the public system, including MRIs, mammograms, and CT scans.
  • Increase the number of surgeries in the public system by hiring more staff and increasing the hours of operation.
  • Establish an online list of family doctors accepting new patients and improve access to primary care and nurse practitioners.
  • Reduce prescription costs by signing on to the federal government’s plan to cover insulin and contraceptives.
  • Fund one round of in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment for families looking to grow.
  • Help firefighters, burn victims and cancer patients get treatment by reopening the Moose Jaw Hyperbaric Chamber.

Mental Health and Addictions

  • Increase access to mental health supports, addictions support, including counselling, prevention and early intervention services.
  • Enrol more people in the Rapid Access Counselling program.

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More Money In Your Pocket

More Money In Your Pocket

Invest In Education

Invest In Education

A Strong and Growing Economy

A Strong and Growing Economy

Tough On Crime, Tough On The Causes Of Crime

Tough On Crime, Tough On The Causes Of Crime

We'll deliver on this and so much more.  Here's how we'll pay for it:

 

 

Costing table

$ Million 2025/26 2026/27 2027/28 2028/29
Cost of Platform Initiatives
Increased Education Funding K-12 200.0 200.0 200.0 200.0
Increased Health Funding 115.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
6-Month Suspension of the Gas Tax 62.5 0.0 0.0 0.0
Small Business Tax Maintained at 1% 42.8 57.1 57.7 58.3
Removing the PST from all Groceries 36.4 37.1 37.9 38.7
Removing the PST from Children’s Clothing 21.9 22.3 22.8 23.2
Tough on Crime Initiatives/Hire Police 13.0 0.1 0.1 0.1
In-Demand Training Funding 10.0 5.0 5.0 5.0
Indigenous and Immigrant Business Support 10.0 5.0 5.0 0.0
School Nutrition Program 10.0 18.0 25.8 0.0
Investments in Affordable Housing 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0
Main street Incentive Program 5.0 10.0 15.0 15.0
Accountability Commission 2.3 0.4 0.0 0.0
Rebates for Security Equipment 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants for Community Halls and Rinks 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Protecting Grasslands and Wetlands 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0
Office of Missing Persons 1.0 0.1 0.1 0.1
Seniors Advocate 1.0 0.1 0.0 0.1
Business Roundtable 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0
Small Business Loan Program 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5
Cuts to SaskParty Waste/Mismanagement 58.3 — — —
Financial Forecast
Expenses
 20,850.1 21,600.2 22,368.7 23,091.3
Revenues 20,686.4 21,517.0 22,328.3 23,148.4
Surplus/(Deficit) (163.7) (83.2) (40.4) 57.1

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