It’s cases like this that have placed Ontario’s oversight system for health professionals under the microscope. The task force presented its findings and recommendations to the college’s council in 2016. In the meantime, the nurses college plans to make headway on recommendations it already has authority to act on. The report will be on the agenda this fall at a meeting of the Federation of Health Regulatory Colleges of Ontario — an umbrella group for the 26 colleges. Dr. Rocco Gerace, the recently retired registrar of the CPSO, said he expects that the nurses college recommendations will come to fruition.

Source: thestar March 25, 2018 23:37 UTC