Transforming and Supporting Patient Care - Health Professions ...

92Chapter 4 - Critical Links: Proposals for Implementation• to monitor each College’s efforts in serving and protecting the publicinterest and in achieving its objects;• to inform the public on matters relating to health profession regulationand the public’s rights and recourses associated with health professionregulation;• to establish criteria, rules and procedures that must be followed for thedesignation of a drug on the Drug List, and to publish those criteria, rulesand procedures on its website and in any other format it considersadvisable;• to designate drugs on the Drug List for a regulated health profession,with any terms, limitations and conditions associated with those drugs,and to remove or modify those designations or terms, limitations orconditions from time to time;• to keep, maintain and publish the Drug List; and• to bring to the Minister’s attention any other matter that requiresgovernment action.Requirement to provide informationFor the purposes of fulfilling its general functions and duties under this Act,the Agency may require a Council to provide information other thanpersonal information to the Agency either in response to a specific request,or at regular intervals.Time and formThe Agency may specify the time at which and the form in which theinformation must be provided.Compliance requiredThe Council shall comply with every requirement to provide informationunder this section.Drug ListThe Agency shall keep, maintain and publish a Drug List.The Drug List shall set out,(a) the individual list of drugs that a health profession is authorized toadminister by injection or inhalation, prescribe, compound, dispenseor sell within the class of drugs authorized to the health professionunder the regulations made under its health profession Act;(b) the terms, limitations and conditions associated with those drugsfor the health profession; and(c) any other information or material the Agency considers necessaryor advisable.HPRAC Critical Links January 2009