By: Barrie Quappé RN, BSN – Consultant/Director:
As the Cayman Islands are focused on their elections and rightly so due to the new single member electoral districts and restriction to one vote only, legislative changes continue and may not capture the attention that is also deserved. For healthcare, one major shift has been the amendments to drop the requirement of foreign practitioners needing to have a Caymanian ‘affiliate’ in order to register for professional practice in the Cayman Islands.
The relevant section is inserted below for your examination. Further, I would recommend you acquire a copy of this for your healthcare facility, so your HR manager is up to speed on the latest legal requirements.
THE HEALTH PRACTICE LAW
(2013 REVISION)
THE HEALTH PRACTICE (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 2017
[Supplement No. 1 published with Extraordinary Gazette No. 20 dated 1st March, 2017.]2. The Health Practice Regulations (2013 Revision), in these Regulations referred to as the “principal Regulations”, are amended in regulation 4 as follows-
(a) in subregulation (1), by repealing paragraph (c) and substituting the following paragraph –
“(c) an original or certified letter of good standing from a current board of registration issued no earlier than three months prior to the submission of the application;”; and
(b) by repealing subregulation (10) and substituting the following subregulation –
“(10) Where the applicant is a non-Caymanian health practitioner, the applicant shall provide written evidence at the date of application –
(a) that the applicant is or will be affiliated with one of the registered health care facilities in the Islands; or
(b) that the applicant is or will be employed by an educational institution, a medical school, a nursing school, a home health care company, or a home health care agency, in the Islands.”
Download a full copy of the Amendment.
Remember Cayman Healthcare Consulting (‘CHCC’) can help you maintain your adherence to the relevant legislation, so you can focus on your patients.
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