Ontario Palliative Care Network

The Ontario Palliative Care Network (OPCN) is a partnership of health service providers, community and social support service organizations, health systems planners, as well as patient and family/care partner advisors formed to develop a coordinated and standardized approach for delivering palliative care services in the province.  

Their Mandate is the following:

• To act as a principal advisor to the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Long-Term Care on quality, coordinated palliative care in Ontario
• To be accountable for quality improvement initiatives, data and performance measurement, and system-level coordination of palliative across the province 
• To lead regional and local integration of palliative care services and delivery
• We engage sector stakeholders – including but not limited to, Francophones, and First Nations, Inuit, Metis and urban Indigenous communities – to inform recommendations and work on palliative care

At this website you will find landmark documents to support the implementation of both Primary/Core and Secondary/Specialist level Palliative Care teams and the expected competencies the providers who make up those teams are expected to have to provide evidenced base, inclusive and holistic palliative care.

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