Quality Care
Most Accessed
Policies in 2019
1. Medical Records
2. Transitions in Care
3. Availability and Coverage
4. Managing Tests
5. Mandatory and Permissive
Reporting
“With the launch of the program and the opportunity
it represents to support a profession already
dedicated to lifelong learning and improvement, we
are showing Ontario’s doctors that the CPSO is here
to work hand in hand with them,” said Registrar/CEO
Dr. Nancy Whitmore.
Guidance
One of the CPSO’s key duties as a medical regulator
is to provide guidance to Ontario physicians on
professionalism and issues relevant to the practice of
medicine. The guidance – often produced in the form
of policies - also reflect relevant legal requirements
found in legislation, regulation and by-laws.
In 2019, the College provided key guidance
to the profession on issues of Continuity of
Care. A system of health-care that is connected
and coordinated and ensures the exchange of
information is critical to patient safety.
While the CPSO recognizes that physicians are not
solely responsible for ensuring that continuity of
care is achieved, as there are often health system
level factors beyond their control that impede or
facilitate continuity of care, physicians do have a
role to play given the prominent and important role
they hold in the health care system.
The CPSO’s approach has been to focus on those
issues or elements of continuity of care that are
within the control or influence of physicians
In setting expectations pertaining to continuity
of care, the College developed a set of interrelated
policies addressing a range of issues. They
are: Availability and Coverage, Managing Tests,
Transitions in Care, and Walk-in Clinics.
The policies and their accompanying advice documents,
which were approved by Council in September, set our
physician obligations and provide guidance around how
these obligations may be effectively discharged.
In 2019, the College provided key guidance to the profession on issues of Continuity
of Care. A system of health-care that is connected, coordinated and ensures the
exchange of information is critical to patient safety.
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