HealthCareCAN / SoinsSantéCAN
Registration:
39
of
48
(2022-01-28
to
2022-09-01)
Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit
- Federal role in the health system as it relates to the use of federal spending power and the achievement of national objectives.
- Funding for cybersecurity resiliency and standards in the health sector.
- Increase funding to modernize critical physical and digital health infrastructure to support the delivery of health services and health research and innovation.
- Increase investment and access to funding for health research, innovation, knowledge translation and commercialization.
- Strengthen the Canada Health Transfer and Canada Social Transfer including through increased transfers to provinces and territories.
Policies or Program
- Allow direct access to federal funding for academic healthcare organizations (healthcare delivery organizations, research institutes and health authorities).
- Create a more equitable, diverse, inclusive and representative health system that reflects the Canadian population and serves the needs of all Canadians.
- Funding and programs to improve healthcare infrastructure energy efficiency and climate and pandemic resiliency.
- Funding and programs to support virtual care, digital health, and cybersecurity in the health sector.
- Funding, policies and programs related to clinical trials, medications/drugs and medical devices.
- Health services to populations falling under federal jurisdiction, like veterans and certain Indigenous people.
- Implement a national health human resources strategy to address staffing shortages and inadequate level of primary care providers and improve working conditions in the health system.
- Implement a national pharmacare program as per recommendations made by the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare.
- Implement measures and funding to prevent opioid addiction and overdoses, and to improve access to and implementation of appropriate harm reduction programs and treatments.
- Implement national standards for long-term care.
- Implement recommendations from the Industry Strategy Council's "Restart, recover, and reimagine prosperity for all Canadians" report, including policy and program changes and increasing investments in the health and biosciences sector.
- Improve Indigenous health services and access to care for Indigenous people, and continue to act on Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations.
- Improve access and quality of palliative care.
- Improve the delivery of older adult care in Canada, including a shift to providing more home and community care and creating communities that allow for healthy aging.
- Mental health and well-being support and services for the health workforce and Canadian public.
- Secure an innovation supercluster in the health and life sciences so that this sector can be supported as one of Canada's world-leading innovation clusters.