Under the authority of the Veterinarians Act and the CVBC Bylaws, the CVBC is responsible for the following:

The College is a self-regulatory body that operates under the auspices of the provincial government and through the Health Professions Act, the Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists Regulation, and the College Bylaws. The College, as an institution, is politically unaligned and all its activities are entirely separate from electoral politics.

Receives and processes complaints against the actions of registrants.

• Sets requirements to practice for audiologists, hearing instrument practitioners, and speech-language pathologists 
• Establishes, monitors, and enforces standards of conduct and for the provision of care and services
• Investigates complaints and takes necessary disciplinary action when registrants fail to live up to their professional standards

• Reviews applications for registration as a psychology practitioner in B.C.
• Investigates complaints related to a psychologist’s practice and conduct
• Develops quality assurance activities

• Ensures that BC’s physicians are qualified, competent and fit to practise medicine
• Manages and responding to complaints from patients
• Takes action if a physician is practising in a way that is incompetent, unethical or illegal
• Administers quality assurance activities to ensure physicians remain competent throughout their professional lives
• Accredits diagnostic and private medical/surgical facilities so that patients receive quality care

CPTBC fulfils their mandate by:

• setting entry to practice and ongoing registration requirements
• setting standards of practice, determining ethical expectations
• managing complaints about physical therapists, and
• providing resources to physical therapists to support their service to the public.

• Ensures pharmacists and pharmacy technicians provide safe, effective and competent care to help people achieve better health
• Investigates all complaints related to a pharmacist or pharmacy technician’s professional practice

• Establishes qualifications to ensure opticians are providing competent and effective care
• Responsible for assessment, registration and licensing for all licensed opticians, contact lens fitters, and automated refracting licensed opticians 
• Responds to public and registrant complaints and inquiries

The COTBC:

• Provides practice support to help occupational therapists provide safe, competent, ethical and effective car
• Investigates complaints
• Sets requirements to become an occupational therapist in BC

• Ensures oral health professionals are able to practice competently 
• Serts expectations for the delivery of safe and patient-centered health care 
• Investigates complaints about oral health professionals