Consultation on revising BC’s Health Professions Act
In November 2019, the Steering Committee on Modernization of Health Professional Regulation released its...
Read MoreIn November 2019, the Steering Committee on Modernization of Health Professional Regulation released its...
Read MoreInternet-based or mail-order medical products are testing out their jurisdiction in Canada. Most recently,...
Read MoreThe public interest in health regulators eliminating sexual abuse by registrants may in some...
Read MoreAs described in a recent Globe and Mail article (here), the College of Physicians...
Read MoreThe B.C. College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (“TCM”) unsuccessfully sought a finding of contempt...
Read MoreThe extent to which registrants may rely on processes set out in inquiry and...
Read MoreWith modern-day professional businesses becoming multi-clinic based, national, or international operations, professional regulators can...
Read MoreThe propriety of an interim suspension during a regulatory investigation, when a registrant is...
Read MoreColleges under the Health Professions Act “may” consider any past action previously taken by...
Read MoreThe jurisdiction of regulatory colleges to regulate the activities of professionals who operate in...
Read MoreWhere a health professions college collects information about a registrant for “quality assurance” purposes,...
Read MoreComplainants who file complaints with colleges against health professionals, and have their complaints dismissed,...
Read MoreIn 2018, courts addressed the boundaries of professional regulatory bodies to act in the public...
Read MoreThe B.C. Supreme Court recently confirmed that the Health Professions Review Board must afford...
Read MoreWhen inquiry committees negotiate consent or undertaking agreements to resolve complaint matters consensually (under...
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