Review of the Health Canada Blood Safety Program (BSP) : final report.: H14-185/2003E-PDF
The final report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Blood System in Canada, known as the Krever Report, was released in 1997. It included recommendations aimed at strengthening Health Canada’s blood regulatory program and public health programs through enhanced blood surveillance. As a result, additional funding was provided to Health Canada to ensure that the following two critical objectives of the Health Canada Blood Safety Program (HCBSP) were met: • to protect the people of Canada against current and emerging health threats arising from the therapeutic use of blood, tissues and organs; and • to be on par, in general, with blood regulatory and surveillance programs in other leading industrialized nations, such as the United Kingdom, Australia and Germany. One of the conditions of this funding was that Health Canada return in 2001-2002 with a review of the funding needed to sustain the Program. This review, conducted by Goss Gilroy Inc., between July 2001 and July 2002, was intended to provide information on initial implementation of the enhanced programming. ...
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| Department/Agency | Canada. Health Canada. Departmental Audit and Evaluation Committee. |
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| Title | Review of the Health Canada Blood Safety Program (BSP) : final report. |
| Variant title | Review of the HCBSP : final report |
| Publication type | Monograph |
| Language | [English] |
| Other language editions | [French] |
| Format | Electronic |
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| Note(s) | Issued also in French under title: Examen du Programme de la sûreté du sang de Santé Canada (PSS) : rapport final. "October 2, 2003." "Presented to: Health Canada Departmental Audit and Evaluation Committee." Includes bibliographical references. |
| Publishing information | [Ottawa] : Health Canada, 2003. |
| Description | [163] p. in various pagings |
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| Subject terms | Blood supply Safety measures Program assessment |