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Keeping up to speed with changes in the world of health
professional regulation in Alberta will keep almost anyone working
in healthcare busy in 2021. Colleges have significant work ahead of
them to review and revise professional regulations, bylaws and
standards of practice. Associations and colleges that currently
operate as one entity will need to plan for their separation from
one another, and will need to address the numerous transitional
issues that will come with separation.
Healthcare organizations and professionals also need to be aware
ABC Benefits Corporations Act. In addition, the Bill
repeals the
Hospitals Act.
The Bill received Royal Assent on December 9, 2020. While most
of the Bill comes into force on proclamation, certain provisions
came into force on Royal Assent and are therefore law. Amendments
that are now law include all of the
Health Information Act
amendments except those related to Alberta s Electronic Health
Record (discussed below), and the repeal of subsections (n) and (s)
in section 132(1) of the
Health Professions Act, which
removes a council under that Act s authority to make bylaws
respecting benefits programs and educational incentives and
respecting setting and negotiating professional fees and related