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! Reminders & Updates Has your information changed? As a registered midwife, you have a professional obligation to notify the College within 14 days of any change to: • your name that differs from the College’s Public Register; • your residential address, telephone number and personal email address; • the name, business address and business telephone number of every practice with which you are affiliated, whether as a sole proprietor, a partner, an associate or in some other capacity as a Midwife; • the name of each hospital, birth centre and health facility in Ontario where you have privileges, as well as the date that each privilege was granted and terminated This is set out in article 14.06 of the College’s General By-Law. The failure to provide accurate information to the College in a timely fashion may constitute professional misconduct, under Ontario Regulation 388/09, made under the Midwifery Act, 1991. For further details about the information that members are required to provide to the College, please refer to Article 14 of the College’s General By-law. You can make all information changes through the Member Portal. Call for Nominations The College of Midwives of Ontario is seeking three (3) midwives to fill positions on Council. The new terms on Council will commence in October 2016 and will expire in October 2019. Nomination deadline is Friday April 29, 2016. Visit our website for an outline of Council commitments and Nomination Form. For more information, please refer to the Code of Ethics & Professional Misconduct Regulations. In addition, College staff are available to provide information to assist the public, midwives, and practices in meeting mandatory reporting requirements. For more information about making a report, please e-mail the Professional Conduct Department at iandh@cmo.on.ca or call 416.640.2252 ext. 224. Volume 8, Issue 3 | December 2015 Volume 9, Issue 1 April 2016 8