Mandatory reporting refers to the statutory obligations that require health professionals, facilities, and others to report specified information to a regulatory college or authority. Under the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 and the health profession statutes, these duties include reporting suspected sexual abuse of a patient, reporting where a member’s conduct or health may expose patients to harm, and reporting terminations of employment or privileges related to professional misconduct, incompetence, or incapacity.
These obligations are an important part of the public-protection framework, and a failure to report can itself amount to professional misconduct. In litigation and discipline matters, mandatory reporting questions arise both as a discrete allegation and as part of the broader factual picture of how a risk to patients was, or was not, escalated within an institution and to the regulator.
Posts tagged Mandatory Reporting analyze Ontario decisions and disciplinary outcomes involving the statutory reporting duties owed by health professionals and institutions.
The Court of Appeal affirmed the dismissal of a medical negligence claim alleging failure to report child protection concerns. The causation chain failed at multiple links.
A clinical immunologist crossed professional boundaries with a 30-year patient and tried to procure a false alibi during the CPSO investigation that followed.
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