‘Almost universal unhappiness’: Liberal MP Powlowski’s bill tackles doctors’ frustrations with Health Canada’s special access drug program

Marcus Powlowski, who is also a doctor, visited children's hospitals in Canada to get input on his bill that aims to give clinicians more say on a federal program that provides access to medicines that are not approved here. Those doctors are ‘frustrated by government bureaucracy that’s preventing them from delivering the optimal treatment to kids,’ Powlowski says.
Liberal MP Marcus Powlowski, a doctor, said he chose reforms to Health Canada's Special Access Program as the subject of his first private member's bill because of the numerous concerns physicians have with the red tape around the program.

Liberal MP Marcus Powlowski says that “almost universal unhappiness” with the red tape around Health Canada’s Special Access Program is what motivated his new private member’s bill, aiming to give medical professionals a stronger role in deciding which medications sh...

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