NDP fall legislation will aim to better protect patients from health-care provider sexual abuse

The province will introduce legislation this fall to better protect patients from sexual abuse by health-care providers, but the council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta is cautioning that the rules shouldn’t be too broad and lump offences together in terms of severity.
The bill follows legislation in Ontario, which increased the list of sexual abuses that led to the mandatory revocation of a health professional’s licence last year.
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