Chair's Message

David A. Wright

Welcome to the Health Professions Discipline Tribunals website.

The HPDT is a relatively new innovation: a group of health professions’ discipline tribunals that share leadership, experienced adjudicators, administrative processes, rules of procedure, adjudicator education, and many more resources.

In modernizing our processes, we have incorporated best practices in administrative justice to help ensure that our systems are efficient, our panels are highly trained, and our decisions are well-reasoned and easily understood. This project has been a great success that has resulted in more focused hearings, increased timeliness, openness, and fairness.

A large part of the thanks goes to our staff, tribunal members and the leadership of the participating health colleges, all of whom have been integral to the process of developing and modernizing the HPDT. So far, six health colleges have chosen to join the HPDT—but there’s always room for us to grow and evolve.

Feedback is important to us—that’s why we created the Roundtable Group that brings together HPDT leadership, representatives from each college, and counsel that regularly represent the defence or complainants. We are also always open to feedback from the public. If you have comments or questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.