For a decade, the OAND has lobbied each successive provincial government to improve the regulation of the naturopathic profession.
We are now very close to achieving that objective: on April 27, 2006, the Health Professions Regulatory Advisory Committee (HPRAC) advised Ontario’s Minister of Health and Long-Term Care that Naturopathic Doctors and the practice of Naturopathic Medicine should be regulated under the Regulated Health Professions Act.
Read the HPRAC report, Regulation of Health Professions in Ontario: New Directions here.
What is the benefit of improved regulation?
Improved regulation should have significant benefits for current and prospective patients of Naturopathic Doctors, Ontario Naturopathic Doctors and for Ontario’s healthcare system as a whole.
Read the OAND's letter to current and prospective patients of Naturopathic Doctors here.
Research
Want to find out what the public thinks about Naturopathic Medicine? Click here.
Fully 40 percent of Ontarians – or 5,000,000 potential patients – say they are likely to
see a Naturopathic Doctor (ND) in the next few years, according to recent public opinion research done for the Coalition for Naturopathic Medicine.
The study was conducted by Innovative Research Group through random-digit dialing telephone interviews among a representative sample of 602 English-speaking Ontarians, 18 years of age or older. The interviews were conducted between March 17th and March 23rd, 2006. Up to eight call-backs were made in the case of non-response. Using data from Statistics Canada, the results were weighted according to region, age and gender to ensure a sample representative of the entire Ontario adult population. In the end, the maximum margin of error obtained for a sample of 602 respondents is ± 4.0%, 19 times out of 20.
To view the full polling questionnaire and response data, click here.
