Health Care is Not for Sale Act (Addressing Unfair Fees Charged to Patients), 2025
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- Requires health professionals to treat patients with fairness, not just sensitivity and respect
- Makes charging patients an unfair fee for a service a form of professional misconduct
- Allows discipline panels to order reimbursement of unfair fees and a three-month licence suspension
- Requires Colleges' patient relations programs to include measures preventing unfair fees
- Lets Council make regulations defining what counts as an 'unfair fee'
- Allows the Director to revoke or suspend a health centre's licence for charging unfair fees
- Restricts eliminating licensed services unless linked to unfair fee concerns