As with any new program, some fantastic work was done, and there were also some failures. We need to learn from those failures.
I'll give you an example of what I think was fantastic work.
I happened to be co-chairing the education working group. There were five working groups in total, and I chaired the education one. The work we did as an interprofessional team went to the implementation of a project called Educating Future Physicians in Palliative and End-of-Life Care, or EFPPEC. With the funding we received from that, we were able to put teams in place across all the 17 medical schools to start mapping out the curricula and start implementing palliative care in the curricula. Some of those schools now are amongst world leaders, the University of Ottawa being one of them, in palliative care-related education.
There were examples of successes. We tried to do same EFPPEC type of project for nursing, and unfortunately by the time we got to that, there was no further funding, which is again an example of not having the sustained funding that we needed.
There was another working group that I was very disappointed did not continue. It was one that was looking at measures, performance indicators, and standards. I believe that had that work been funded properly and moved forward, today we would have had much richer data on this topic to inform us and guide us in terms of planning the health care services at regional and provincial levels, and also at the federal level.