Lack of mental-health accountability frameworks concerning: NDP critic

Mary Bartram, a Ph.D candidate at Carleton University, says the $5-billion over the next ten years outlined in the Health Accord is a step in the right direction, but doesn't come close filling the $3.1-billion mental health care funding gap.

Minister of Health Ginette Petitpas Taylor fills out paperwork prior to getting a flu shot on Nov. 9. The minister said in September she looked forward to working with provincial and territorial counterparts to develop bilateral agreements on accountability frameworks for mental health spending outlined in the Health Accord. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY EMILY HAWS

November 15, 2017

There's a concerning lack of news regarding the accountability frameworks for mental health funding as outlined in last year's new Health Accord, said an opposition critic and academic, and without adequate oversight and transparency, money could disappear into the provincial health-care funding pot...

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