Bill 29 explained in plain English
Medicine Amendment Act, 2014
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Bill 29, the Medicine Amendment Act, 2014, amends the Medicine Act, 1991, to expand the public register of physicians to include details on complaints, cautions, civil actions, patient deaths, and information from other jurisdictions.
Bill 29, the Medicine Amendment Act, 2014, proposes changes to the Medicine Act, 1991. It aims to enhance the public register maintained by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario by requiring it to include more detailed information about its members. This information includes complaints filed, cautions issued, civil actions related to professional negligence or malpractice, patient deaths under a member's care, and comparable disciplinary information from other jurisdictions. The bill also includes provisions regarding the Registrar's efforts to obtain this information and clarifies that no action taken under these new provisions should violate a publication ban.
- Amends the Medicine Act, 1991, to add a new section (Section 8) requiring the Registrar to maintain a public register with specific additional information about each member.
- Requires the public register to include notations of complaints filed against a member.
- Requires the public register to include notations of cautions given to a member by the Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee.
- Requires the public register to include prescribed information about civil actions or proceedings alleging professional negligence or malpractice.
- Requires the public register to include notations of patient deaths under a member's care, as determined by regulations.
- Requires the public register to include available comparable information from other jurisdictions where a member has practiced.
- States that the Registrar shall make best efforts to obtain the specified information.
- Includes a provision that no action taken under these new sections should violate a publication ban.
- Amends Section 12 of the Act to allow for regulations related to the new information requirements in Section 8.
- Specifies that the Act comes into force on a day named by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor.
- Physicians registered with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.
- The Registrar of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.
- The public, who can access the enhanced public register.
- The Lieutenant Governor (through proclamation).
- The Registrar has an obligation to make best efforts to obtain specific information for the public register.
- The public register must include notations of complaints, cautions, civil actions, patient deaths, and information from other jurisdictions.
- No action taken under the new provisions should violate a publication ban.
- The Act comes into force on a day to be named by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor.
- The specific details regarding information about civil actions and patient deaths will be determined by regulations.
- The extent to which information from other jurisdictions is 'comparable' will be determined by regulations.
- The bill does not specify the exact date of commencement, only that it will be proclaimed.
Adds new requirements for the content of the public register maintained by the Registrar of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Specifically, it mandates the inclusion of details about complaints, cautions, civil actions, patient deaths, and information from other jurisdictions.
Source: Section 1
Allows for regulations to be made concerning the types of information to be included in the public register, particularly regarding civil actions, patient deaths, and information from other jurisdictions.
Source: Section 2 (amending Section 12 of the Act)
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