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Share your input in this brief survey as the province looks to modernize health professions. A steering committee with representatives from all three parties in the BC legislature has worked together on a proposal to modernize the province’s health professions regulatory system, with a focus on increasing transparency and patient safety.
Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, and his steering committee colleagues Norm Letnick, health critic of the official Opposition, and Sonia Furstenau, health critic and house leader of the third party, are seeking public input on their proposal, “Modernizing the provincial health profession regulatory framework: A paper for consultation proposal.”
The proposed changed would:
- Ensure regulatory colleges put the public interest and patient safety ahead of professional interests;
- Improve effectiveness of regulatory college boards and ensure boards are composed of members appointed based on merit and competence;
- Reduce the number of regularly colleges from 20 to five to improve efficiency and support for all regulated professions (no professions will stop being regulated);
- Make it easier for new professions to become regulated; and
- Simplify and increase transparency in the public complaints and professional disciplinary process
Level of Engagement: This opportunity is at the level of consult on the spectrum of engagement. The promise to you is that the health care partner will listen to and acknowledge your ideas and concerns, and provide feedback on how your input affected the decision.
Learn about health profession regulations and read the proposal to modernize the province’s health professions here.
The consultation paper is available here.
