Public Notice regarding collection of data for the Health Professionals Database
The CRTO, along with other allied health regulatory Colleges, will be expanding its collection of personal information about members, including basic demographic, geographic, education and employment information, and providing this information to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care in anonymized form, at the request of the Ministry for health human resources planning purposes.
The authority for the collection of data for the Health Professionals Database comes from section 36.1 of the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 (RHPA), where it states that the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (Ministry) can request that regulatory colleges collect information, including personal information, from their members, and that this information be provided to the Ministry . The RHPA provisions authorize the Ministry to collect this information from the Colleges, and use and disclose it, only for the purpose of health human resources planning, which means ensuring the sufficiency and appropriate distribution of health providers.
If you have any questions about the collection, you can contact the Ministry's Allied Health Database Project Lead at forecasting@healthforceontario.ca or walsh@crto.on.ca at the CRTO.
January 2009
Webcast
The webcast, featuring Jeff Goodyear, Director of Health Human Resources Policy Branch and Dr. Ben Chan, CEO of the Ontario Health Quality Council, is now posted on the HealthForceOntario website. The Ministry requests that you please place the below webcast link on your websites and feel free to send the link in any materials you send to your members.
The webcast link is http://www.healthforceontario.ca/WhatIsHFO/evidence_hhr/hpdb.aspx