A program published by Together

Healthcare system

Every position from this program, grouped by the site's policy topics. The same positions also appear under each topic in the party's platform.

Health

•Dozens of community health centers nationwide within five years — local-anesthesia surgery, imaging, specialist clinics and urgent care close to home — prioritizing the periphery
•A national health-workforce planning body, bringing doctor numbers up to the OECD average and closing the nursing gap
•A "returnees desk" to bring Israeli doctors back from abroad (more than 3,700), with suitable pay and shorter licensing
•Doubling investment in preventive medicine and rewarding health funds for prevention and early detection, including "social prescriptions" and prevention from early childhood
•Hospitals and medical branches in the north and south run by Israel's leading medical centers
•A privacy-protected national medical-data platform and a unified record for every patient, innovation "sandboxes," and an authority to vet medical technology tools