TRAnsparency
Council approves Phase 2
by-laws for consultation
Progress of our
Transparency Initiative
since August 2012
Premises Register
Hearing Status of Discipline
Proceedings
Reinstatement Decisions of
the Discipline Committee
Location of Records
Consultation of AGRE
Recommendations
Reported findings of guilt under
the Criminal Code
Reported findings of offences
made under the Health
Insurance Act
Some ICRC outcomes, criminal charges part of
a new stage of Transparency Initiative
T
wo years ago, we initiated a multi-phase initiative to see how we
could become more transparent about our decisions and processes. We have been working with other health-care regulators
to identify various ways in which we can provide more useful
information to the public about individual doctors and about the effectiveness of professionally-led regulation, in general. We believe that increasing
the amount of information will help patients in choosing doctors or facilities, and will enhance our accountability to the public.
The Advisory Group for Regulatory Excellence (AGRE), which is made
up of regulators of doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, optometrists, and
physiotherapists, has developed principles to guide the decision-making
process in the Transparency Initiative. These principles have provided an
important foundation for work to date.
All of the principles have contributed to the development of specific
recommendations. But there are two principles which have been key to our
direction:
Principle 2: Providing more information to the public has benefits, in-
Bail conditions that
affect a physician’s right to
practice in an unrestricted way
Criminal charges (in consultation)
Licences in other jurisdictions
(in consultation)
Discipline findings in other
jurisdictions (in consultation)
ICRC: Undertakings
(developing policy)
ICRC: Cautions-in-Person
(in consultation)
ICRC: SCERPs (in consultation)
Discipline Committee – no
findings (legislative change required)
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