Bill 179 Passed In Ontario To Provide Better Health Care To Their Citizens

On May 11, 2009, Legislature was introduce the Regulated Professional Statute Law Amendment Act To help citizens with health care options.

 

Ontarians will soon have better access to health care and more choices in who provides it, as Bill 179 was passed Monday night with unanimous support.

Upon proclamation, the bill will give nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physiotherapists and other health professionals the freedom to provide a wider range of health care services.

The Regulated Health Professions Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 will increase access to care for Ontarians by:

• Allowing nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physiotherapists, dietitians, midwives and medical radiation technologists to deliver more services than they are now qualified to provide.
• Changing the rules for administering, prescribing, dispensing, selling and using drugs in practice for chiropodists and podiatrists, dental hygienists, dentists, midwives, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physiotherapists and respiratory therapists.
• Removing restrictions on X-rays that can be ordered by nurse practitioners and enabling physiotherapists to order X-rays for specific purposes; and
• Removing restrictions on the drugs nurse practitioners may prescribe, dispense, compound and sell.

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