| Health Canada | media advisories
The Honourable Mark Holland, Canada’s Minister of Health and the Honourable John Main, Minister of Health, Nunavut, will make an important health care announcement.
| Health Canada | news releases
To help support and retain members of the nursing workforce, today, the Honourable Mark Holland, Canada’s Minister of Health joined Dr. Leigh Chapman, Canada’s Chief Nursing Officer at Trillium Health Partners, Credit Valley Hospital, to announce the release of the Nursing Retention Toolkit: Improving the Working Lives of Nurses in Canada to help improve the working lives of nurses.
| Health Canada | media advisories
The Honourable Mark Holland, Minister of Health, and Dr. Leigh Chapman, Chief Nursing Officer for Canada, will hold a news conference to announce an initiative to improve the well-being and retention of nurses across Canada.
| Health Canada | backgrounders
Today, the Honourable Mark Holland, Minister of Health, announced the Government of Canada’s next step toward the first phase of national universal pharmacare with the introduction of Bill C-64, An Act respecting pharmacare, into Parliament, and the intention to provide universal, single-payer coverage for a range of diabetes medications in collaboration with willing provinces and territories (PTs).
| Health Canada | backgrounders
Today, the Honourable Mark Holland, Minister of Health, announced the Government of Canada’s next step toward national universal pharmacare with the introduction of Bill C-64, An Act respecting pharmacare, into Parliament, and the intention to provide universal, single-payer coverage for a range of contraception medications and devices in collaboration with provinces and territories (PTs).
| Health Canada | news releases
Today, the Honourable Mark Holland, Minister of Health, introduced Bill C-64, An Act respecting pharmacare (Pharmacare Act), which proposes the foundational principles for first phase of national universal pharmacare in Canada and describes the Government of Canada’s intent to work with provinces and territories (PTs) to provide universal, single-payer coverage for a number of contraception and diabetes medications.
| Health Canada | media advisories
The Honourable Mark Holland, Minister of Health, will introduce legislation relating to accessibility and affordability of pharmaceutical drugs for people in Canada. Following the introduction the legislation the Minister will hold a press conference.
| Health Canada | news releases
Today, the Honourable Mark Holland, Canada’s Minister of Health, the Honourable Ya’ara Saks, Canada’s Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health, and the Honourable Lesa Semmler, Minister of Health and Social Services of the Northwest Territories, announced two bilateral agreements to invest a total amount of more than $36 million to improve health care access and services in the Northwest Territories.
| Health Canada | news releases
Today, the Honourable Mark Holland, Canada’s Minister of Health and the Honourable Adrian Dix, Minister of Health of British Columbia announced a bilateral agreement to invest $733 million over the next five years to help British Columbians age with dignity, closer to home, through improved access to home and community care and long-term care (LTC).
| Health Canada | media advisories
The Honourable Mark Holland, Canada’s Minister of Health and the Honourable Lesa Semmler, Minister of Health and Social Services, Northwest Territories, will make an important health care announcement.
