The United Voice of Hospice
and Palliative Care Across
British Columbia  & Yukon

Every child living with a serious illness deserves access to compassionate, high-quality hospice palliative care, and every family deserves to be supported throughout their journey.

The Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA), in partnership with Canada’s Pediatric Palliative Care Alliance, has launched the Short Lives Can’t Wait campaign to raise awareness of the urgent need for equitable access to children’s hospice palliative care across Canada.

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The BC Hospice Palliative Care Association (BCHPCA) has released a new provincial report, Building the Missing Pathway for Hospice Palliative Care in British Columbia, calling for stronger integration, planning, and sustainable investment in hospice palliative care across the province.

With approximately 120,000 service interactions each year, BC hospice societies provide vital support through serious illness, caregiving, grief and end of life. 

The report highlights growing pressures related to aging populations, fragmented funding structures, inequities in rural and remote communities, and opportunities to strengthen coordinated provincial planning for hospice palliative care.  

Read the full report
and press release

BCHPCA’s Hospice Data & Information Standards Task Group is developing a shared framework to better understand hospice services, their reach and the resources that sustain them. This work will build clearer evidence to support planning, funding discussions and equitable access to care.

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We have provided some key Messages and Social Media Information to bring awareness and educate our government officials of Hospice Palliative Care.
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Key Facts & Backgrounders

A collection of current statistics and knowledge of hospice palliative care in British Columbia, and Yukon.

• 2022 Facts & Backgrounder
• 2021 Facts & Backgrounder