S-204National Framework on Heart Failure Act

What it does

• Requires the Minister of Health to develop a national framework to improve heart failure prevention, diagnosis, management and evaluation.
• Requires the framework to include early detection, patient and caregiver education, guideline-directed therapy, multidisciplinary care, and remote monitoring or virtual visits.
• Requires the framework to address care gaps, especially in rural, remote and underserved communities.
• Requires the framework to include patient outcome research, performance reporting, a national heart failure registry, and use of the Canadian Community Health Survey.
• Requires the Minister to consult provincial governments, Indigenous governing bodies, health professionals, researchers, patients and caregivers, and to hold at least one conference within 12 months.
• Requires the Minister to table the framework within 18 months, publish it online, and report within five years on its effectiveness and the current state of diagnosis and treatment.