COLLABORATIVE REGULATION PROJECT
The Nova Scotia Health Professions Regulatory Network exists to improve professional regulation in the health care system through collaboration among regulators, of which Nova Scotia (and other provinces) has more than twenty.  The Network's Working Group on Collaborative Self-Regulation, which included the Department of Health, tackled the tension between a regulatory system that defines accountability largely within distinct professions and a health care system that increasingly depends on interprofessional collaboration.  The group considered regulatory models from across Canada and other countries and developed the preliminary outline of a collaborative model that would be unique to Nova Scotia.  The Network's findings in "Collaborative Regulation and Professional Accountability in Nova Scotia's Health Care System" can be found here.

NEUROETHICS NET PROJECT
Find information on the field of neuroethics - an exciting new field at the intersection of neuroscience and ethics - and on the activities of the Neuroethics New Emerging Team funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction.
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PATIENT SAFETY PROJECT
On this website, you will find the results of a Health Canada funded research project on governance and patient safety conducted by a multidisciplinary team of researchers. The project examined how governments in Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States use law to improve patient safety in order to make recommendations for law reform and further research in Canada.
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THE END OF LIFE PROJECT
Do you have questions about end of life law and policy in Canada? On this web site read about advance directives, palliative interventions, and the withholding and withdrawal of potentially life-sustaining treatment. There are answers to "Frequently Asked Questions", an online library, reports on research conducted by the project team, a glossary, and links to related sites with other useful information.
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