Federal Health Budgets 2016-2022
April 7, 2022
Budget 2016
- $270M over 5 years for the construction, renovation and repair of nursing stations, residences for health care workers, and health offices that provide health information on reserve.
- $69 million over 3 years for mental wellness teams and crisis stabilization
Budget 2017 = $828.2M over 5 years
- Chronic and infectious diseases: $50.2M
- Maternal and Child Health: $83.2M
- Primary care: $72.1M
- Mental wellness: $118.2M
- Home and palliative care: $184.6M
- Non-Insured Health Benefits Program: $305.0
- Drug strategy—harm reduction measures: $15.0
- (all above amounts over 5 years)
Budget 2018 = $1.497B (5 year totals)
- Access to critical medical care and services: $498M
- Addictions treatment and prevention: $200M ($40M ongoing)
- Capacity-building in First Nations communities: $235M
- Non-Insured Health Benefits Program: $490M
- Supporting Inuit health priorities: $68M
- Includes $27million over 5 years for eliminating tuberculosis in Inuit Nunangat
- Métis health data and health strategy
Budget 2019
- Supporting Inuit children: $220M (over 5 years)
- Improved Assisted Living and Long-Term Care: $44M (over 2 years)
- National Inuit Suicide prevention Strategy: $50 over 10 years and #5M ongoing
Budget 2021
- COVID-19 response: $1.2B
- $478.1M to support public health response
- $760.8M for Indigenous Community Support Fund
- Maintain essential health services for First Nations and Inuit: $1.4B + $40.6 ongoing
- $774.6M over 5 years for Non-Insured Health Benefits Program
- $354M over 5 years to increase number of nurses and medical professionals in remote First Nations communities
- $107.1M over three years to transform how health care services are delivered ny First Nations communities
- $125.2M to support First Nations reliable access to clean water and help ensure the safe delivery of health and social services on reserve
- $22.7M over 5 years to help First Nations and Inuit manage health impacts of climate change
- Distinctions-based Mental Wellness Strategy
- $597.6M over three years for First Nations, Métis and Inuit
Budget 2022 = $686.1M (2022-23)
- $268 million in 2022-23 to continue to provide high-quality health care in remote and isolated First Nations communities on-reserve.
- $190.5 million in 2022-23 to Indigenous Services Canada for the Indigenous Community Support Fund to help Indigenous communities and organizations mitigate the ongoing impacts of COVID-19.
- $227.6M over 2 years to maintain trauma-informed, culturally-apprpriate, Indigenous-led services to improve mental wellness, and to support efforts initiated through Budget 2021 too co-develop distinctions-based mental health and wellness strategies