Health Committee on March 9th, 2017

[Dr. J. David Henderson]

Thank you very much.

I'd like to make one comment, which I'd like to offer to this committee. Palliative care is a complex entity, as I'm sure you're gathering. It crosses hospital acute care, community and long-term care, homeless people everywhere, rural and urban.... It's so diverse. It includes spirituality and so on.

Pallium has a module on it. It's the LEAP “Taking Ownership” module. It's under “LEAP Core”. It's a one-hour module. I will offer that, if you as a group would like to get it. Again, it's a one-on-one on palliative care. It's appropriate for people who aren't physicians. We've provided that as part of the LEAP core presentation that we give to nurses, physicians, social workers, pharmacists, and so on. It gives you a good perspective of what we talk about, and I think it would give you a better understanding of palliative care in general.

I'll throw that out there as an offer. I would be happy to make myself available at any time if you want to do that, just to try to give a better foundation if you felt you needed something like that.

[The Chair, Liberal, Bill Casey]

We'll discuss that, but thank you very much.

Now we have a little committee business we have to do, as quickly as we can. We have all-party agreement, I think, on changing the schedule. The next meeting is going to be clause-by-clause. That's settled. The meeting after that will be on M-47, on March 23.

Would somebody move the adoption of the budget for Bill C-277, to help pay our witnesses?

That's moved by Dr. Carrie.

(Motion agreed to)

Thanks for that.

Just before we leave, one last thing. We need to adopt the work plan for M-47. Everybody has a copy of it. Do I have a motion to adopt the work plan for M-47?

Thank you, Mr. Viersen.

(Motion agreed to)

That's it. The meeting is adjourned.