National Health Data Strategy Act

An Act to establish a national strategy for health data collection

This bill is from the 43rd Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2021.

Sponsor

Helena Jaczek  Liberal

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of May 28, 2021
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment requires the Minister of Health to develop a national strategy, in consultation with representatives of provincial and territorial governments and of Indigenous governing bodies, as well as with health researchers and public health experts, for the collection of health data in order to ensure that such data is available in a consistent manner across Canada for research and policy development. It also provides for reporting requirements in relation to the strategy.

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

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