S-284National Framework on Heart Failure Act

What it does

• Creates a national framework to improve access to heart failure prevention, diagnosis, management and evaluation, and to reduce burdens on the health system.
• Requires the framework to cover early detection, accurate diagnosis, patient and caregiver education, mental health supports, guideline-directed treatment, multidisciplinary care, remote monitoring and virtual visits.
• Requires the framework to address care gaps in rural, remote and underserved communities, and to improve health data, including a national heart failure registry and better use of the Canadian Community Health Survey.
• Requires the Minister to consult provincial governments, Indigenous governing bodies, health professionals, researchers, patients, caregivers and associations, and to hold at least one conference within 12 months.
• Requires a framework report to be tabled in Parliament within 18 months and posted online within 10 days, then a follow-up report within five years on effectiveness, current diagnosis and treatment, and recommendations.