A five-member panel of the HPRB examined the practice of one health college allowing complaints to be dismissed, apparently following review and assessment by its Inquiry Committee, but in fact dismissed by the Registrar, in Complainant v. College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC, Decision No. 2011-HPA-0018(a) (January 6, 2012). The HPRB stated that College [Read More]

An investigation may fail to be adequate where an Inquiry Committee fails to make inquiries addressing conflicting assertions of complainant and registrant, and instead simply accepts the assertions of the registrant, as illustrated in Complainant v. College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC, Decision No. 2010-HPA-0108(b). In this case, a physician terminated a prescription for [Read More]

The Health Professions Review Board (HPRB) addressed the ability of an applicant to obtain “reciprocal” registration with a health college in British Columbia, based on his former unregulated practice in another Canadian jurisdiction, and his current licensed practice in a U.S. jurisdiction. The HPRB agreed a bylaw granting registration to an applicant who “holds” registration [Read More]

Ontario’s Health Professions Appeal and Review Board (HPARB) cannot review a decision with respect to multiple registrants if a complainant limits her application for review to one registrant only. That conclusion led an Ontario court to find a decision of HPARB concerning its duty to review to be unreasonable in Wilcock v. Ontario (HPARB), 2012 [Read More]

2011 was an amazing year for health law cases. We strained to reduce the number of cases to ten. Other organizations might well choose different cases, and CBA’s National Health Law section will be publishing its own list in its newsletter, The Pulse. Since Lisa is both an author of this list, and the editor [Read More]