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S-204 — An Act to establish a national framework on heart failure
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S-204
An Act to establish a national framework on heart failure
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BILL S-204
An Act to establish a national framework on heart failure
Last activity : At consideration in committee in the Senate
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Senate · 1st2025-05-27Senate · 2nd2025-12-09Senate · 3rdCommons · 1stCommons · 2ndCommons · 3rdRoyal assent
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What it does, in plain language
- Requires the Minister of Health to develop a national framework to improve access to heart failure prevention, diagnosis, management and evaluation.
- Calls for measures promoting early detection and accurate diagnosis, with equitable access across all regions and demographic groups.
- Includes education and support for patients and caregivers, including mental health resources, across the full care journey.
- Promotes guideline-based treatment, multidisciplinary care, remote monitoring and virtual visits, and targets care gaps in rural, remote and underserved communities.
- Builds a health data infrastructure, including a national heart failure registry and system-level performance indicators such as patient-reported quality of life and functional status.
- Mandates consultation with provinces, Indigenous governing bodies, health professionals, researchers, patients and advocacy groups, plus at least one conference within 12 months of the Act coming into force.
- Sets deadlines: table the framework in Parliament within 18 months, publish it on the Health Canada website within 10 days, and report on its effectiveness with conclusions and recommendations within 5 years.
- Notes in its preamble roughly 100,000 new heart failure diagnoses each year in Canada and that it is the third-leading cause of hospitalization.
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