REPORTS FROM COUNCIL
ties, and provincial organizations.
The report contains early quality
initiatives that can begin this year
and move Ontario toward quality
management partnerships in each
service area. The report also includes
associated funding requests with
each initiative.
The document was submitted to
government at the end of March for
review.
Transparency Project
Amendment – Reinstatement
Applications
As part of our transparency initiative, information about Discipline
Committee decisions regarding
reinstatement applications has been
on the public register since late last
year.
A by-law has been passed that will
add information to the public
register regarding applications for
reinstatement that are made by
Executive Committee or Council.
Where the application is made by
a person whose certificate was
revoked or suspended further to
disciplinary proceedings, the by-law
requires that the date the application will be considered together
with the decision be included in the
public register.
Where the application is made
by a person whose certificate was
revoked or suspended further to
incapacity proceedings, the by-law
requires that the date the application will be considered together
with a summary of the decision
be included in the public register
(unless the Registrar determines it
is in the public interest for the full
decision to be included). Please see
facing page for new by-law.
Fee Increase of $20 Approved
Council ratified the budget for
2014 after circulating the proposed
fee increase to the membership.
This amounts to $20 a member,
bringing the annual fee to $1,570
for most classes of certificates of
registration.
In a comparison of provincial medical regulatory colleges, the CPSO’s
fee is in the mid-range. A number
of other Colleges across the country
Medical Regulatory
Authority
2014
Alberta
$1,960
Prince Edward Island
$1,865
NFLD & Labrador
$1,700
Saskatchewan
$1,700
Manitoba
$1,700
Ontario
$1,570
British Columbia
$1,530*
Nova Scotia
$1,555
Quebec
TBD
New Brunswick
$500
Territories
$200
* Awaiting review by Council
have fees several hundred dollars
more than the CPSO annual fee
(see chart).
Colonoscopy Clinics and
Other Community-based
Specialty Clinics
Council has approved an amendment to the College’s general
regulation that will see some clinics
become subject to oversight from
both the Out-of-Hospital Premises
Inspection Program (OHPIP) and
the Independent Health Facilities (IHF) Program. Currently, the
regulation exempts IHFs from the
OHPIP. The decision follows a consultation with stakeholders.
The amendment is a response to the
provincial government’s proposal to
make changes that would see colonoscopy procedures moved out of
hospitals into community specialty
clinics and making them IHFs to
allow them to receive facility-based
funding. To date, colonoscopy clinics have fallen within the scope of
the College’s OHPIP. Without this
regulation amendment, the colonoscopy clinics will no longer be
under the OHPIP’s jurisdiction if
they become IHFs.
The College is of the view that
patient safety would be best protected if there was a dual regulatory
model, providing oversight by both
the OHPIP and the IHF programs.
It would like to see colonoscopy
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