Bill 182 explained in plain English
Compassionate Care Act, 2017
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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The Compassionate Care Act, 2017 mandates the Ontario Minister of Health and Long-Term Care to create and report on a provincial framework for hospice palliative care.
This bill, known as the Compassionate Care Act, 2017, requires the Ontario Minister of Health and Long-Term Care to develop a provincial framework for hospice palliative care. This framework will aim to improve access to such care and will define what hospice palliative care is, identify training needs for healthcare providers and caregivers, support care providers, promote research and data collection, facilitate consistent access across Ontario, and consider existing practices. The Minister must consult with various stakeholders, including other ministries, the federal government, and hospice palliative care providers, before developing the framework. The Minister must then report this framework to the Legislative Assembly within one year of the Act coming into force, and this report must be published online. Within five years of the framework report being tabled, a second report on the state of hospice palliative care in Ontario must also be prepared, tabled, and published online.
- Requires the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care to develop a provincial framework for hospice palliative care.
- Specifies that the framework should define hospice palliative care, identify training needs, support providers, promote research and data collection, and facilitate access.
- Requires the Minister to consult with various stakeholders, including hospice palliative care providers and other ministries, when developing the framework.
- Mandates that the Minister initiate these consultations within six months of the Act coming into force.
- Requires the Minister to prepare a report detailing the provincial framework and table it in the Legislative Assembly within one year of the Act coming into force.
- Requires the Minister to publish this framework report on a government website within 10 days of it being tabled.
- Requires the Minister to prepare a report on the state of hospice palliative care in Ontario within five years of the framework report being tabled.
- Mandates that this second report also be tabled in the Legislative Assembly and published online.
- States that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The Minister of Health and Long-Term Care
- Hospice palliative care providers
- Health care providers
- Caregivers
- The federal government
- Other affected ministries in Ontario
- The Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- The public in Ontario (as recipients of hospice palliative care)
- The Minister of Health and Long-Term Care has the obligation to develop a provincial framework for hospice palliative care.
- The Minister has the obligation to consult with various stakeholders.
- The Minister has the obligation to initiate consultations within six months of the Act coming into force.
- The Minister has the obligation to prepare and table a report on the framework in the Legislative Assembly within one year of the Act coming into force.
- The Minister has the obligation to publish the framework report online.
- The Minister has the obligation to prepare and table a report on the state of hospice palliative care within five years of the framework report.
- The Minister has the obligation to publish the second report online.
- The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- Consultations must be initiated within six months after the Act comes into force.
- The report setting out the provincial framework must be laid before the Legislative Assembly within one year after the Act comes into force.
- The report on the state of hospice palliative care must be laid before the Legislative Assembly within five years after the framework report is tabled.
- The bill does not specify the exact content of the provincial framework beyond the listed areas, leaving details to the Minister's discretion.
- The bill does not specify the exact composition or methodology for the consultations, beyond identifying who should be consulted.
- The bill does not specify the exact format or level of detail required for the reports, beyond what is stated.
- The bill does not specify what happens if the Minister fails to meet the timelines for consultation, reporting, or publication.
This Act establishes the requirements for developing and reporting on a provincial framework for hospice palliative care in Ontario.
Source: Section 1 to 5
This Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
Source: Section 4
The Minister must start consultations on the provincial framework within six months of the Act coming into force.
Source: Section 1(3)
The Minister must table a report on the provincial framework in the Legislative Assembly within one year of the Act coming into force.
Source: Section 2(1)
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