Government Relations
Advocacy work for various initiatives conducted by IPAC-Canada Board Members and Directors on behalf of the membership.
Federal Government
COVID-19
- Stop! Clean Your Hands - May 5, 2020
- Memorandum to Members - July 31, 2020 - Pandemic Pay for ICPs
- Media Release - COVID-19 Vaccines January 13, 2021
Hill Day 2020
- Brief to Parliament
- Hill Day Photo Gallery
Hill Day 2018
House of Commons Standing Committee on Health - AROs
Photos from November 2017 HESA meeting
- CPSI - AMMI - IPAC Canada Briefing Note
- CPSI Briefing Note
- HESA Transcript - November 2017
- C.N.A. Brief
- HealthcareCan Brief
- Submission to G7
Pan-Canadian Adoption of Acute Care and Long Term Care Definitions
Acute Care Definitions
- CNISP (Acute Care) HAI Surveillance Case Definitions - 2018
- Surveillance des infections associées aux établissements de soins de courte durée. PCSIN 2018
Long Term Care Case Definitions
- CNISP Long Term Infection Surveillance Definitions - 2017
- Définitions de la surveillance des infections pour les établissements de soins de longue durée PCSIN 2017
- Brief to Canadian Health Authorities - Template (English)
- Brief to Canadian Health Authorites - Template (French)
Federal Budget
- Submission to Federal Budget - August 2017
- 2019 PreBudget Submission - August 2018
- 2020 PreBudget Submission - August 2019
Mandatory Vaccination Reporting and Vaccine Hesitancy
- Statement from IPAC Canada
- Press Release - Measles/NIAW/Mandatory Vaccination Reporting (April 2019)
- Letter to Ontario Minister of Health (April 2019) (this letter was sent to all provincial Ministers of Health)
- Letter to Ontario Minister of Education (April 2019)
National Infection Control Week
- John Oliver MP speaks to National Infection Control Week (2018)
- AC Canada Thank You Letter to John Oliver
- Shaun Chen MP - in support of NICW
Tuberculosis In Northern Areas
- Letter to The Honourable Jane Philpott - TB Prevention and Control in Northern Canada (2018)
Provincial
Public Health in Ontario
- Letter to Ontario Minister of Health (June 2019)
Infection Prevention and Control Nova Scotia
Hepatitis C in Nova Scotia Correctional Institutions
- Letter to R. Delorey, Minister of Health, Nova Scotia
- Joint Submission by Women's Wellness Within and IPAC Canada (July 2018)
Other
- Classification and Licensing of High-Level Disinfectants and Sterilants as Medical Devices In collaboration with the Canadian Association of Medical Device Reprocessing (CAMDR), IPAC Canada has issued a comment on the Health Canada Notice. The document is an overview of the changes resulting from new Health Canada guidelines and recommendation to members on understanding and implementing the new guidelines.
