To Zero

The appendices comprise many of the key documents that were both drawn upon and created by this task force, including the terms of reference, the summary of recommendations, correspondence, a summary of questions sent to the regulatory colleges, the consultation summary, relevant sections of the RHPA and its Health Professions Procedural Code, samples of media coverage, an table of acronyms and a [...] In raising concerns about how the CPSO had relied on a number of the interconnected sections of the RHPA that were designed to implement the zero tolerance standard on the sexual abuse of patients (including the provision for mandatory revocations in certain sexual abuse cases), the OMA and ONA each made arguments against some of the RHPA sexual abuse protections (also referred to as the mandatory [...] Given the mandate of Chapter 1: Introduction and Recommendations 11 this task force to include in its analysis all the health professions regulated under the RHPA — not only physicians — it is of interest that, by the time the CPSO decision in Mussani was before the Ontario Court of Appeal, the ONA had joined in the appeal as a “friend of the court,” and made some arguments specific to the “rights [...] However, it is inescapable that the majority of the patients we heard from and the near- majority of the cases of sexual abuse in Ontario dealt with under the RHPA are about physicians and their organizations: the CPSO and the OMA, as well as a lesser known but hugely influential organization — the CMPA. [...] B. That the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care include in the mandate of the Minister’s Implementation Council responsibility to develop an evaluation framework for the OSAPPA with appropriate metrics, at minimum, annual reporting to the Minister on the number and type of complaints by patients, the disposition of those complaints, the fines levied for lack of mandatory reporting, general under