The ºÚÁÏÉç is participating in a National Registry of Physicians (NRP) facilitated by the Medical Council of Canada (MCC). This involves sending registrant data that the ºÚÁÏÉç collects to the MCC to display with similar data from 11 other Medical Regulatory Authorities (MRAs). The MCC received grant funding from the Government of Canada to develop the first nationally integrated source of data on physicians in Canada.
The NRP will function as a centralized information exchange and will allow for improved collaboration across jurisdictions in a shared vision to consolidate valuable physician data in a single location.
Information that will be contained in the NRP includes both personal and business information that the ºÚÁÏÉç currently maintains in its own register. Expanded use anticipated for the next phase of the NRP includes providing public access, however, the public will only have access to information that is currently available to them in provincial college registers according to privacy laws. Data will be securely stored by the MCC within Canada.
The NRP is expected to be launched in phases over several months depending on when MRAs are able to transfer data. More information will be made available in future issues of the ºÚÁÏÉç Connector.