NBHC Care Experience
October 05, 2017
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tasked federal health minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor to work with the provinces to make home care more available amid a long list of priorities. The mandate letter state's Petitpas Taylor's "top priorities" as:
- Completing bilateral agreements with each province that outline specific action plans and performance indicators that will be used to improve access to mental health and addiction services, and home and community care;
- Work with provinces and territories to:
- advance pan-Canadian collaboration on health innovation to encourage the adoption of digital health technology;
- improve access to necessary prescription medications;;
- develop a long-term vision for blood services that ensures safety and non-discrimination in donation policies; and
- facilitate collaboration on an organ and tissues donation and transplantation system that gives Canadians timely and effective access to care.
- Working with partners to ensure Canada's response to the current opioid crisis is robust, well-coordinated, and effective;
- Continuing with plans to legalize marijuana by next July;
- Promote and defend the Canada Health Act; and
- Work with the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs and the Minister of Indigenous Services, to help make systemic change in the government's provision of healthcare services to Indigenous Peoples and to reduce the health inequities between Indigenous Peoples and non-Indigenous Canadians.
Autres nouvelles:
Lettre de mandat de la ministre de la Santé - Premier ministre du Canada
Trudeau lays out orders for Moncton MP in role as federal health minister - The Canadian Press