The Provincial Council for Maternal and Child Health (PCMCH) has two distinct roles. First, the PCMCH generates information to support the evolving needs of the maternal-child health care system in Ontario.  Secondly, the PCMCH is a resource to the maternal-child health care system in Ontario to support system improvement and to influence how services are delivered across all levels of care.

Note: The PCMCH defines child as including infants, children and youth up to their 18th birthday.

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Live Webinar - Feb. 3rd or Mar. 30, 2012 (PDF)

PCMCH Fact Sheet (PDF)

Clinical Practice Guidelines and Recommendations Now Available!
A key component of Council’s work is the development of recommendations and guidelines to support the direct delivery of care. These recommendations are generally in the form of Expert Panel/Work Group Reports submitted to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care for consideration.Many of the recommendations of the work groups relate to practice changes and do not require policy support or significant financial investment. They do however; require adoption at the local level.To that end, Council will increasingly share recommendations from its Reports simultaneously with the broader stakeholder community through this area of the website (see Clinical Practice Guidelines tab at the top of the Home Page) and other targeted approaches to support the roll-out of practice changes. This proactive approach will enable providers to review the implications of recommendations and begin to adapt their practices and organizations to support earlier implementation, where appropriate.

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