Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019
Public bill · Government · Presented
It updates the rules for doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, midwives and other health and social care professionals, mainly to bring Irish law in line with EU rules on recognising qualifications. It also tightens registration and discipline: people must declare serious issues such as convictions or sanctions in other countries, regulators can check those records, and more sanctions will be published and shared with employers and the HSE. It also changes how complaints are handled, aiming to speed up fitness-to-practise cases and let minor sanctions be appealed, while creating new registers for medical interns and doctors on supervised adaptation placements.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to give further effect to Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications as amended by Council Directive 2006/100/EC of 20 November 2006, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1430/2007 of 5 December 2007, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 755/2008 of 31 July 2008, Regulation (EC) No. 1137/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 279/2009 of 6 April 2009, Commission Regulation (EU) No. 213/2011 of 3 March 2011, Act concerning the accession of the Republic of Croatia, Commission Regulation (EU) No. 623/2012 of 11 July 2012, Council Directive 2013/25/EU of 13 May 2013, Directive 2013/55/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 2013 and Commission Delegated Decision (EU) 2016/790 of 13 January 2016 and, for that purpose, to amend the Dentists Act 1985, the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005, the Pharmacy Act 2007, the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 and the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011; to make provision for certain other amendments to those Acts; to make provision for certain amendments to the Health Act 1953, the Health Identifiers Act 2014 and the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; and to provide for related matters.
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- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: From the Seanad Dáil
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages Seanad
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage Seanad
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage Seanad
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Order for Report Stage Dáil
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages Dáil
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Referral to Select Committee Dáil
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care)(Amendment) Bill 2019: Order for Second Stage Dáil
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care)(Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage Dáil
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Act 2020
- An tAcht um Ghairmeacha Rialáilte (Cúram Sláinte agus Sóisialach) (Leasú), 2020
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