Protecting and eMpowering
The Transparency Initiative:
Empowering Patients with
Information
We believe that providing access to additional
physician-specific information helps patients make
informed choices about their health care. It also
enhances our accountability to the public by better
informing the evaluation of professional regulation.
In regard to our Inquiries, Complaints and Reports
Committee (ICRC) process, we used the risk posed to
patients as the main measure to decide which outcomes
should be public and which should not be public.
Please see the decision tree used for consideration of
clinical cases as an example (next page).
The following categories of information were posted on
the public register in 2015.
•C
riminal charges – where known to the College, the
register contains notations about all Criminal Code and
Health Insurance Act charges. Information includes the
fact and content of the charge; and the place and date
of the charge, if known. This information is removed
when the charge