Health committee  Sharon?

Health committee  That is central to the idea around the common statement of principles with provinces. Whether it's home and community care or mental health and addiction services, those are both areas that are delivered in the community. They can be delivered in a hospital setting, but much more

Health committee  Yes, I think there's progress being made in that area as well. The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons has extended the training required for palliative care specialty. Quite apart from the College of Physicians and Surgeons and other nurses and providers, there is really ef

Health committee  I can start. Yes, for sure, EMS and paramedic services are increasingly becoming a very important extension of the health care service delivery model in several jurisdictions, particularly those with rural and remote populations forming a big part of their population. I think s

Health committee  In terms of what they stated publicly as amounts that are specifically allocated to palliative care, yes, there is some variation across jurisdictions.

Health committee  We know now that as a tradition of receiving federal funding, provinces are reporting to the federal government on an annual basis and confirming that the investments they said they would make are in fact being made. In terms of achieving the goals, the measurement on progress is

Health committee  No designated proportion of that funding was set aside for palliative care or for more traditional forms of home care or other community-based services. Provinces negotiated a menu of potential areas of interest of investment with the federal government. The federal government ma

Health committee  In some cases, this information is all public information available on the Health Canada website. The action plans are all posted. In some cases, the jurisdictions in their action plan identified an explicit allocation of funding that was designated for palliative care services.

Health committee  Sure. As part of the “Common Statement of Principles on Shared Health Priorities”, provinces and territories were given a menu of potential areas they could invest in, in the area of home and continuing care, to improve the integration of home care with primary health care, to

Health committee  As in any area like this, where there's tremendous potential to expand service delivery and often inadequate resources generally to go as far as everyone would like them to go, you see really innovative projects and initiatives being started in different parts of the country and

Health committee  Are you referring to the funding under the targeted investments for home care and palliative care through the common statement of principles, or other specific targeted funding from Health Canada?

Health committee  I'm not sure I've seen those numbers, Mr. Chair. I can make a general comment about the allocations—

Health committee  I can comment on that. In the common statement of principles, as Ms. Lawand indicated, there is a common set of metrics that has been adopted by federal and provincial governments to assess progress against the objectives that were set out in the common statement of principles.

Health committee  In addition to the indicators, there is a requirement for provinces and territories to report annually to Health Canada on how they have used the funding, to verify that the allocations they have directed to palliative care or home care or mental health have in fact been made to

Health committee  I think we could say that palliative care is an important part of a well-functioning and high-performing health care system. It is not an insured service under the Canada Health Act, unless it is delivered in a hospital setting or provided by a medical practitioner covered by tha