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BC's multi-party steering committee wants to reduce the number of regulatory colleges for healthcare.
BC to modernize health profession regulatory system
Published 12:59 PDT, Thu August 27, 2020
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With a vision to improve transparency and maintain patient safety in the province's healthcare system, BC's multi-party steering committee is proposing reducing the number of regulatory colleges from 20 to six.
“I want to thank partners and members of the public for their input,” said Health Minister and committee chair Adrian Dix. “We received over 1,780 written submissions and 4,018 surveys in the consultations. This is an area we are passionate about improving and evidently, so are you.”
Dix, and members of the steering committee, Norm Letnick, health critic for the official Opposition, and Sonia Furstenau, health critic and house leader of the third party, reviewed feedback from the public, health professionals, regulators, associations, Indigenous partners, unions and health authorities to revise and finalize the recommendations.
A new oversight body will be created to oversee the colleges and report out publicly on their progress. A new complaints process is being recommended to ensure fairness of investigations and the oversight body will be taking over the role of discipline to ensure the penalties are consistent and fair across professions and colleges.
For more information on the recommendations, and how they would change the current health profession regulation, click here.
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