Bill 114 explained in plain English
Nancy Rose Act (Paediatric Hospice Palliative Care Strategy), 2019
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The Nancy Rose Act (Paediatric Hospice Palliative Care Strategy), 2019 mandates the Ontario Minister of Health and Long-Term Care to develop and implement a provincial strategy for paediatric hospice palliative care, including the establishment of an advisory committee.
This bill requires the Ontario Minister of Health and Long-Term Care to create and put into action a strategy for paediatric hospice palliative care across the province. The goal is to ensure all children in Ontario have equal access to high-quality care. The strategy must include specific supports for families, such as mental health services. The bill also establishes an advisory committee made up of health professionals and families of children who have received hospice palliative care. This committee will advise the Minister on the strategy and must produce an annual report that will be made public and presented to the Legislative Assembly. The Act comes into effect on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Requires the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care to develop and implement a provincial strategy for paediatric hospice palliative care.
- Ensures the strategy aims to improve access to and the quality of paediatric hospice palliative care, promoting equity across Ontario.
- Includes targeted supports for families of children receiving hospice palliative care, such as mental health support, within the strategy.
- Mandates that a report outlining the strategy be prepared and published on a government website on or before the first anniversary of the Act receiving Royal Assent.
- Requires the Minister to continuously assess the strategy's effectiveness and make necessary amendments, publishing any updated strategy.
- Establishes the Paediatric Hospice Palliative Care Advisory Committee.
- Requires the Committee to advise the Minister on the development, implementation, and effectiveness of the strategy.
- Mandates the Committee to review specific recommendations from a 2011 report on paediatric palliative care and adopt them as considered appropriate.
- Requires the Committee to prepare and provide an annual report of its recommendations to the Minister by May 4th each year.
- Requires the Minister to publish the Committee's annual report on a government website and table it in the Legislative Assembly.
- Specifies that the Committee will have between five and nine members, with a majority being regulated health professionals experienced in paediatric hospice palliative care, and the remainder being family members of children who have received or are receiving such care.
- Allows for regulations to be made by the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care regarding geographic representation on the Committee, its procedures, and member duties.
- States that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The Minister of Health and Long-Term Care
- Children receiving or eligible for paediatric hospice palliative care in Ontario
- Families of children receiving or eligible for paediatric hospice palliative care in Ontario
- Regulated health professionals with expertise in paediatric hospice palliative care
- The public, through the publication of reports and the strategy
- The Minister has the obligation to develop and implement a paediatric hospice palliative care strategy.
- The Minister has the obligation to publish reports related to the strategy and the advisory committee's work.
- The advisory committee has the obligation to provide recommendations and annual reports to the Minister.
- Family members have the right to be appointed to the advisory committee.
- Health professionals have the right to be appointed to the advisory committee.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The Minister shall ensure a report setting out the strategy is prepared and published on or before the anniversary of the day this Act receives Royal Assent.
- The Advisory Committee shall prepare and provide its annual report to the Minister on or before May 4 in each year.
- The specific details of the 'targeted supports for families' are not defined in the Act.
- The Act does not specify the exact number of members for the Paediatric Hospice Palliative Care Advisory Committee, only a range (no fewer than five and no more than nine).
- The Act allows for regulations to prescribe 'other geographic areas' for Committee representation, the details of which are not yet specified.
- The Act does not specify the remuneration, if any, for members of the Advisory Committee.
This Act establishes requirements for a provincial paediatric hospice palliative care strategy and an advisory committee.
Source: Title and Explanatory Note
The Minister is now required to develop, implement, and continuously assess a paediatric hospice palliative care strategy for Ontario.
Source: Section 1
This Act establishes a committee to advise the Minister on paediatric hospice palliative care strategy.
Source: Section 2
The Minister may make regulations concerning the paediatric hospice palliative care strategy and the advisory committee, including geographic representation, committee procedures, and member duties.
Source: Section 3
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