Jean-Yves Duclos

• Feds to spend $1.5B over three years to improve access to drugs for rare diseases

  Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says up to $1.4B of that money will be used to help provinces and territories expand coverage of new and existing drugs that treat rare diseases.

  Health

  Mar 22
  
• Alberta will have $13.8M deducted from health transfers because patients paid for services: feds

  Ottawa says there's evidence of Albertans 'paying out of pocket to access diagnostic services such as ultrasounds, MRI and CT scans... that should be accessible at no cost.'

  Canada

  Mar 10
  
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• Director of Canada’s drug price regulator resigns same week as colleague steps down

  The executive director of Canada's drug pricing regulator is stepping down days after another member resigned because of concerns the federal government was undermining their work.

  Health

  Feb 24
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• Nova Scotia next up to talk health funding one on one with Ottawa

  Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos is taking his health-care funding road show to Nova Scotia as Ottawa looks for rapid agreements with all 13 provinces and territories.

  Health

  Feb 13
• Will provinces accept Trudeau’s new health funding deal? Feds to ask ministers

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers met in Ottawa where he presented an offer that would see transfers to the provinces rise by $196 billion over the next 10 years.

  Health

  Feb 8
• Advocates frustrated a year after Saskatchewan’s pledge to explore rare disease strategy

  The mother of a Saskatoon boy who had to go to the USA for life-saving treatment fears her efforts to improve rare disease treatment at home will go unheard.

  Canada

  Jan 24
• Duclos optimistic over ‘change in tone’ from provinces on health funding deal

  A 'change in tone' has brought Ottawa closer to ending a standoff between premiers and the federal government over health-care funding, says Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos.

  Politics

  Jan 20
• Moving public health services to for-profit clinics raises ‘legitimate concerns’: Duclos

  Ontario’s plan to expand private delivery of public health care raises 'legitimate concerns' about equitable access to needed health services, says Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos

  Health

  Jan 17
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• Canadian patients call for easier access to therapeutic psilocybin

  Getting magic mushrooms for recreational use is getting easier, but those needing exemptions for therapy have received 'radio silence' from Health Canada.

  Health

  Jan 13
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• Nova Scotia ER deaths: ‘No one’ should have to go through this, Duclos’s office says

  The Office of Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos has responded to the stories of Nova Scotia women who died after waiting in emergency rooms for seven hours.

  Canada

  Jan 13