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The Health Care Consent Act (HCCA) is an Ontario law concerned with the capacity to consent to treatment and admission to care facilities. (i.e., informed consent). [1] [2] As of 2 August 2023 on a date to be named by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor, the act will also apply to confining in a care facility.
The Act covers the following subjects relating to personal health information in the province of Ontario: Section 1: Interpretation and Application sets out of the purpose of the Act. It defines key terms used throughout the Act, such as "health information custodian" and "health information agent".
Cam Jackson served as Minister of Long-Term Care (July 27, 1998 to June 17, 1999) Ministers of Health and Long-Term Care; Elizabeth Witmer: June 17, 1999: February 7, 2001: Tony Clement: February 8, 2001: April 15, 2002: 2 years, 256 days
As of December 15, 2008, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care announced that all employees, programs and functions of the Ontario Public Health Laboratories (OPHL) had been transferred to the OAHPP. [4] In early June 2011, the OAHPP announced that it would operate under the name Public Health Ontario beginning on June 11, 2011. [5]
The commission's mandate was to within the boundaries of section 78 of the Health Protection and Promotion Act how the state of Ontario's Long-Term Care system before COVID effected the spread of COVID, the suitableness of the measures taken to stop the spread, the effect of the government's long-term care reforms and any other measure related to COVID in long-term care.
Ontario Health (OH; French: Santé Ontario) is a Crown agency of the Government of Ontario. Described as a " super agency ", [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Ontario Health oversees much of the administration of the Ontario healthcare system , with the stated goal of integrating services split between organizations.
The Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) [1] is a means-tested government-funded last resort income support paid for qualifying residents in the province of Ontario, Canada, who are at least eighteen years of age and have a disability. [2] ODSP and Ontario Works (OW) [3] are the two main components of Ontario's social assistance system.
The Supporting Ontario’s Recovery Act, 2020 (Bill 218, 2020; French: Loi visant à soutenir la relance en Ontario et sur les élections municipales) is a law in the province of Ontario that shielded organisations from lawsuits over their role in the spread of COVID-19 and banned city councils in the province from using ranked voting in municipal elections.