CHPCA offers resources for researchers and policy makers to help them advance and advocate for quality palliative care. There are pockets of palliative care innovation around the country, and together they are pushing the boundaries of high quality care and timely access to care.
Position Statement on Hospice Palliative Care and Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)
In June 2016, the Federal Government enacted Bill C-14 legalizing assisted death under certain circumstances and adopted the term ‘medical assistance in dying’. As implemented in Bill C-14 (2018) medical assistance in dying includes both euthanasia (“the administering by a physician or nurse practitioner of a substance to a person, at their request, that causes…
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