UCP says they’ve ‘drastically’ improved Emergency Medical Services wait times
The United Conservative Party says that Emergency Medical Services (EMS) wait times have “drastically” under their government.
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“In 2019, the UCP government inherited a broken, bloated, and bureaucratic health system that was failing Albertans. In response to this crisis, we streamlined resources to the front lines, increased health spending by over $2 billion, and added 700 physicians and nearly 6,000 staff in AHS, including 1,800 registered nurses and 300 paramedics. In 2022 alone, we added 254 physicians and 800 nursing staff,” said Highwood UCP candidate RJ Sigurdson in a statement on Wednesday.
He adds that recently, the UCP added $136 million in new EMS funding to hire more staff and put more ambulances on the road and implemented new EMS patient transfer guidelines at hospitals to allow paramedics and ambulances to get back on the road faster.