I think while there's always an opportunity for bureaucracy to creep into everything, if you look at the places today that have no palliative care services and are in desperate circumstances, you see that these are the locations that have come up with innovations. In some places they only had paramedics, so they had their paramedics trained in palliative care so that they could start to deliver that and were phone-calling into the Winnipeg centre. There are fly-in resource teams for some of these very remote communities, where they can do crisis intervention. There's training the only nurse on the reservation or the only nurse in a northern community in palliative care to be able to provide it and to be able to call a palliative care specialist to walk her through what needs to be done to administer it. In an area where there is nothing else and they are without palliative care, people will hugely suffer.
On March 7th, 2017. See this statement in context.