Palliative care framework: the right bill at the right time

Bill C-277, my private member’s bill, is up for third reading in the House this month.

Bill C-277 provides a framework for palliative care in Canada including defining the services to be covered, training requirements for those providing different levels of care, and a plan to see consistent access across the country.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY CONSERVATIVE MP MARILYN GLADU

May 3, 2017

The need for palliative care has been a topic of discussion for years. However, with 70 per cent of Canadians having no access to any type of palliative care, action has been slow. Last year, with the implementation of medical assisted dying legislation, the special committee that studied the Carte...

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