Download the Proposed Umbrella Health Professions Legislation for Prince Edward Island Consultation Paper

aussi disponible en français


Summary of Proposed Umbrella Health Professions legislation

The issue of health professions regulation and legislation has been the subject of many reviews and reports in jurisdictions across Canada. Umbrella health profession legislation has been recommended and implemented in a number of those jurisdictions. The umbrella model of regulation has been incorporated in the proposed legislation. The proposed legislation will:

• provide for the regulation of health professionas designated by regulation;
• allow health professions to continue to be self-regulating;
• continue to place the interests of patients and the public at the centre of the regulatory process;
• offer effective protection for the public by regulating actions or clinical procedures that may present a risk of harm if performed by someone who is not adequately trained;
• establish a process to review requests for regulation of a health profession; and
• remove barriers to interdisciplinary practice.

• one umbrella statute with consistent legislative provisions for governance, registration, complaints, discipline, appeals, public representation, regulation and bylaw making power that will be applicable to all designated health professions;
• flexible administrative, complaint and discipline processes;
• non-exclusive scopes of practice for designated health professions;
• regulating only those activities that pose a threat or risk of harm to patients;
• specific regulations for each designated health profession, which will include scope of practice, standard of practice, qualification standards, use of title, permitted reserved activities and other profession specific matters;
• the continued existence of profession-specific colleges to provide governance and administration of regulated health professions.

Contact Us

E-mail: nmhewitt@gov.pe.ca