System Collaboration
WHY DO WE COLLABORATE?
Policy Consultation and
Policy Development
an important factor in system collaboration. To
amendments to the Medicine and Regulated Health
this end, we continued long-standing relationships
Professions Acts. Recognizing that the CPSO is
Information
Sharing
with Choosing Wisely Canada (CWC) and the
Ontario Chief Coroner’s Office. In the pages of our
publication, Dialogue, we endorsed CWC’s message
just one of 26 health regulators working under the
RHPA, and that any change made to the governing
legislation will impact other regulators, we have
of smart stewardship of limited resources and
worked closely with the Federation of Health
regularly summarized the recommendations from
Regulatory Colleges of Ontario in finding common
Process
Improvement Ideas
expert committees of the Chief Coroner’s office in
its review of cases.
Working with Government
As part of the CPSO’s commitment to applying the
goals. Of all the individual health colleges, we have
worked particularly closely with the Colleges of
Nurses of Ontario, who first articulated a new vision
for governance several years ago.
Workable
Legislation
principles of right-touch regulation, a proposal for
legislative and regulatory change was submitted
to the Ontario Government in March 2019. While
Our submission asked the government to support
the implementation of right-touch regulation
through governance modernization and ensuring the
the CPSO has considered – and implemented –
timeliness and effectiveness of our core regulatory
many governance and regulatory modernization
functions.
Issues Forecasting and
Mitigation (Physician
Burnout; Health System
Issues, Quality)
changes that can be implemented through our
processes; many of the most essential changes for
modernization can only be accomplished with the
support of government.
In our view, it is imperative that the regulatory
framework governing the health professions
modernize alongside the rest of the health care system
in order for bodies like the CPSO to remain responsive
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These changes require legislative or regulatory
and nimble in a rapidly evolving environment.
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