Practice restrictions are conditions or limitations placed on a regulated health professional’s certificate of registration that constrain how, where, or in what circumstances they may practise. They can be imposed by a College’s complaints committee on an interim basis to protect the public during an investigation, or by a discipline tribunal as part of a penalty following a finding of professional misconduct or incompetence.
Restrictions can take many forms, including a prohibition on performing certain procedures, a requirement to practise under supervision or with a chaperone, limits on prescribing, mandatory monitoring or reporting, and education or remediation conditions. They are a public-protection tool rather than a form of compensation, and they appear on the public register so that patients and employers are aware of them.
Posts tagged Practice Restrictions analyze Ontario decisions in which conditions or limitations were placed on a physician’s or other professional’s certificate of registration.
National Post coverage of Dr. Michael Hart, the London, Ontario physician suspended for six months over his ketamine prescribing and for asking patients to sign away their right to sue him or complain to the College. Paul Cahill comments on why that document is an alarm bell, how it differs from an ordinary surgical consent form, and where a College proceeding ends and a civil claim begins.
A physician’s practice was found deficient across assessment, consent, prescribing, monitoring, record keeping and OHIP billing, on the evidence of two complainants and 34 further charts reviewed by two independent assessors. Patients were also asked to sign a form promising not to sue him and not to complain to the College. A look at what the Tribunal did with that, and why a discipline finding is not compensation.
Hamilton Spectator coverage of Dr. Stefan Konasiewicz, whose six-month suspension could end in August. Paul Cahill comments on why a patient death led the discipline tribunal to remediation rather than revocation, and where a College proceeding ends and a civil claim begins.
A neurosurgeon practising pain medicine was suspended for six months after the tribunal found his chronic pain care fell below the standard of practice, his treatment of a patient who died after nerve blocks was deficient, and he breached a College order restricting his injections. A look at why a patient death led to remediation rather than revocation, and where the discipline process ends and a civil claim begins.
Ontario discipline tribunal imposes four-month suspension, practice restrictions, and mandatory supervision on chronic pain physician with pattern of prior concerns.
A physician was suspended for seven months after a CPSO audit found he had failed to comply with restrictions imposed in 2016 after a finding of sexual abuse.
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