Dialogue Volume 10 Issue 4 2014 | Page 32

TRAnsparency Current model for ICRC outcomes No/Minimal Risk Low Risk Moderate Risk Proposed model for ICRC outcomes High Risk No/Minimal Risk Low Risk Moderate Risk High Risk • Discipline • Interim Order No Action • Advice/ recommendation • Caution-inPerson • Remedial agreement • SCERP • Undertaking • Discipline • Interim Order • Undertaking - Restrictions • Undertaking - Resign • Undertaking - Resign confidential PUBLIC cluding improved patient choice and increased accountability for regulators; and Principle 7: The greater the potential risk to the public, the more important transparency becomes. These principles continue to inform all recommendations presented to college Councils. Work had been continuing apace on the Transparency Initiative, when, in early October, the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care wrote to health regula- • Undertaking - Restrictions confidential PUBLIC tory colleges. The Hon. Dr. Eric Hoskins directed each Council to take steps to develop and establish measures that will continuously increase transparency in College processes and decision-making, and will make more information available to the public. He asked us to report back to him by December 1, 2014 on the specific steps that will be taken to make all these transparency measures possible. As a result of the government’s request, we moved forward more quickly than anticipated in the principles principle 1: The mandate of regulators is public protection and safety. The public needs access to appropriate information in order to trust that this system of self-regulation works effectively. 32 Dialogue Issue 4, 2014 principle 2: Providing more information to the public has benefits, including improved patient choice and increased accountability for regulators. principle 3: Any information provided should enhance the public’s ability to make decisions or hold the regulator accountable. principle 4: In order for information to be helpful to the public, it must: •  e timely, and easy to b find and understand. • nclude context and i explanation.