The Health Professions Discipline Tribunal is an independent tribunal that oversees the discipline process for regulated health professions in B.C. The Discipline Tribunal makes sure the process is fair, effective and in the public interest.
Role of the Discipline Tribunal
The Discipline Tribunal operates under the Health Professions and Occupations Act (HPOA). Our role is to:
- Decide what information to make public after each case is finished
- Decide on requests from the regulatory colleges to issue citations
- Approve agreements to resolve certain cases without a hearing
- Hold disciplinary hearings when necessary
- Hear appeals from disciplinary hearings
The discipline process
The Discipline Tribunal plays an important role in the discipline process for regulated health professions.
Resources
The Discipline Tribunal issues practice directives which are the Tribunal’s rules.
Hearings
The Discipline Tribunal holds hearings for discipline cases. The hearings are open to members of the public. We provide information about the date and time of the hearings and how members of the public can attend. We also provide resources for self-representation at hearings.
Annual reports and performance reports
Browse our publications to read annual reports and performance reports.
Join the Discipline Tribunal
We recruit members to fill part-time roles and sit on our discipline panels. Roles include vice chairs, professional members and public members.