Frank Klees

Press Release

May 24, 2011

Eliminate Waste and Move Health Care Funds Into Frontline Services

QUEEN’S PARK—Newmarket-Aurora MPP Frank Klees today confirmed PC Leader Tim Hudak’s announcement that a PC Government’s top priority will be health care.

Today’s announcement focuses on 5 priorities:

  1. Introducing a rigorous system of patient satisfaction and health outcome measures
  2. Improving health care for Ontario seniors with 40,000 new and renovated long-term care beds
  3. Increasing investments in home care, and giving families more control over services; and
  4. Bringing more doctors to the communities that need them by encouraging doctors, nurses, and physician assistants to work collaboratively in under-serviced areas to meet patients’ needs.  The plan also commits to increasing residency placements for medical students from Ontario who have trained outside Canada and want to return home to practice
  5. Getting rid of unnecessary administration, including LHINs, and reinvesting that funding into care for patients.

“Today’s announcement underscores the importance that a PC Government will put on health care and especially the growing health care needs of our seniors,” said Klees. “Eliminating waste and moving our health care dollars to the frontlines will ensure that we can meet the needs of our aging population and improve the quality of service being provided.”