To Zero: Independent Report of the Minister’s Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Patients and the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 - Appendix B: Recommendations

However, when a complaint is received, the registrar of the college of the health professional making the report is to receive a copy of the mandatory report by that health professional, even when the patient is not named in the report. [...] B. Currently unregulated health care providers — for example, sonographers — need to be identified and assigned to an existing college for regulation in the interest of patient safety, and where unregulated health care providers vi To Zero: Independent Report of the Minister’s Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Patients and the Regulated Health Professions Act , 1991 are contracted to [...] 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 [...] Inter-Ministerial Oversight for Implementation The Cabinet of Ontario should immediately establish an inter-ministerial implementation initiative (group) that includes leadership from the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care in cooperation with the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, the Ministry of the Attorney-General, the Minister Responsible for the Status of Women and others to [...] Aboriginal Health Strategy Renewal A. The task force recommends that the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care initiate the renewal of a comprehensive, cross-cutting inter-sectoral policy on aboriginal health to incorporate and act upon the 94 Calls to Action made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as relevant to the overall health and well being of Indigenous peoples in Ontario generally