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1997 Legislative Session: 2nd Session, 36th Parliament

FIRST READING

The following electronic version is for informational purposes only.

The printed version remains the official version.

HONOURABLE JOY K. MacPHAIL

MINISTER OF HEALTH AND

MINISTER RESPONSIBLE

FOR SENIORS

BILL 15 – 1997

PHARMACISTS, PHARMACY OPERATIONS AND

DRUG SCHEDULING AMENDMENT ACT, 1997

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province

of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

Section 36 of the Pharmacists, Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act,

R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 363, is repealed and the following substituted:

Confidentiality

36 A person who obtains information, files or records under this Act must not disclose

them to any other person except for the purposes permitted by this Act, the purposes

of carrying out a duty under the bylaws or as required by law.

Section 37 (1) is amended by adding the following paragraph:

(a.1) the therapeutic treatment or care of patients by persons referred to in

section 38.1 (1), .

Section 38 (1) is repealed and the following substituted:

(1) The council must, by bylaw, establish a committee consisting of not more than 10

persons appointed by the council to manage, in accordance with this Act and the

bylaws, disclosure of information from that portion of the PharmaNet database

that contains patient record information and general drug information.

4 The following

section is added:

Access to PharmaNet patient record information

38.1

(1) Subject to this Act and any applicable regulation under subsection (2) (c), the

following may have access to patient record information on the PharmaNet

system:

(

a) pharmacists;

(

b) medical practitioners designated under subsection (2) (a);

(

c) other persons designated under subsection (2) (b).

(2) In relation to access referred to in subsection (1), the Lieutenant Governor in

Council may make regulations

(

a) designating medical practitioners, by name or by class as established by the

regulation, who are permitted to have access for the purpose of providing

therapeutic treatment or care to patients,

(

b) designating other persons, by name or by class as established by the

regulation, who are permitted to have access for the purpose of providing

therapeutic treatment or care to patients, and

(

c) establishing requirements, restrictions and conditions relating to access by

a person or a class of persons.

Commencement

5 This Act comes into force by regulation of the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

Explanatory Notes

[This Bill amends the Revised Statutes of British Columbia,

1996. The Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1996 came into force on April

21, 1997.]

SECTION 1: [Pharmacists, Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act, re-enacts

section 36] clarifies that information under this Act may be used for the

purposes contemplated by the Act.

SECTION 2: [Pharmacists, Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act, adds

section

37 (1) (a.1)] recognizes facilitating the treatment and care of patients as a

purpose of the PharmaNet system.

SECTION 3: [Pharmacists, Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act, repeals and

replaces

section 38 (1)] changes the role of the committee from managing

access to the ParmaNet system to managing disclosure from the system.

SECTION 4: [Pharmacists, Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act, enacts

section 38.1] allows the Lieutenant Governor in Council to make regulations

authorizing access to the PharmaNet system and establishing restrictions on

that access.

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