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Accountability: The Challenge for Medical and Nursing Regulators

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Baumann, Andrea, Norman, Patricia, Blythe, Jennifer, Kratina, Sarah, Deber, Raisa·2014·Healthcare Policy | Politiques de Santé

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Little has been written about how regulatory bodies define and demonstrate accountability.This paper describes a substudy of a research project on accountability in healthcare.The aim was to increase understanding of how regulatory bodies perceive and demonstrate accountability to their stakeholders.Twenty-two semi-structured interviews were conducted with provincial/territorial CEOs from the two largest health professional regulatory bodies in Canada: medicine and nursing.The regulators indicated that accountability was essential to their mandates and provided the foundation for regulatory frameworks.However, they did not offer a common definition of accountability.They agreed that they were accountable to three constituencies: the public, government and their members.Regulators noted that protecting the public and meeting the demands of the government and their members creates tension.They were also concerned about maintaining independence in the regulatory role. RésuméIl existe peu de textes sur la façon dont les organismes de réglementation définissent et démontrent l' obligation de rendre compte.Cet article décrit une étude sur un projet de recherche portant sur l' obligation de rendre compte dans les services de santé.L' objectif était de mieux comprendre la façon dont les organismes de réglementation perçoivent et démontrent l' obligation de rendre compte auprès de leurs intervenants.Vingt-deux entrevues semi-dirigées ont été menées auprès de tous les DG provinciaux et territoriaux des deux plus grands organismes de réglementation professionnelle de la santé au Canada : la médecine et les services infirmiers.Ces personnes ont indiqué que l' obligation de rendre compte était un aspect fondamental de leur mandat et fournissait la base du cadre de réglementation.Cependant, elles n' ont pas donné une définition commune de l' obligation de rendre compte.Elles ont convenu devoir rendre compte auprès de trois entités : la population, le gouvernement et les membres de leurs ordres.Les personnes chargées de la réglementation notent que la protection de la population et la réponse aux demandes du gouvernement et des membres crée des tensions.Ils se disent également préoccupés par le maintien de l'indépendance dans le rôle de la réglementation.

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Authors
Baumann, A., Norman, P., Blythe, J., Kratina, S., & Deber, R.
Affiliations
  • McMaster University (CA)
  • University of Toronto (CA)
Venue
Healthcare Policy | Politiques de Santé
Published
2014-09-30
Volume
10
Issue
SP
Pages
121-131
ISSN
  • 1715-6572 (ISSN-L)
  • 1715-6580
OpenAlex
W1984996611
Cited by
9
References
8
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2014: 2
FWCI
1.22
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Healthcare policy (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (101967_1)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Healthcare Regulation
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Healthcare Quality and Management
Keywords
accountability, medical regulation, nursing regulation, regulatory independence, public protection, stakeholder accountability, regulatory requirements
MeSH terms
Administrative Personnel, Attitude of Health Personnel, Humans, Interviews as Topic, Licensure, Medical, Licensure, Nursing, Nurses, Physicians, Professional Competence, Public Health, Social Responsibility, Societies, Medical, Societies, Nursing, Government Regulation, Patient Safety

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