reports from council
• Transparency
In 2012, the College began a multiphase
initiative to review how the College could
make more physician-specific and process
information available to the public on our
website. The consultation is ongoing and
feedback can be provided until April 1st. In
early December, in response to a request from
the Minister, the CPSO sent the Ministry
a letter detailing our initiative and planned
activity. The Minister has not responded to
our letter. There is an article that addresses the
dominant themes arising from the ongoing
consultation of Phase 2 of the initiative on
page 27 this issue.
• Minister’s Sexual Abuse Task Force
A task force has been appointed to review our
governing legislation to ensure that existing legislative measures, designed to prevent
and deal with the sexual abuse of patients by
regulated health professions, are appropriate
and effective. Council has directed a review
into our practices and processes relating to
sexual abuse and an overview is provided on
page 23.
the CPSO was invited to provide a submission to the panel, expressing its thoughts and
recommendations for the future of facilities
regulation. On page 25, we discuss the submission that the College has provided to Health
Quality Ontario for its review.
Quality Management Partnership
Report
Council approved the final report of the Quality Management Partnership. The report puts
forward recommendations for the development
of provincial quality management programs for
colonoscopy, mammography and pathology
services in Ontario.
Working closely with physicians, other
health-care professionals and organizations,
the College and its partner in this initiative,
Cancer Care Ontario, made recommendations for the design of quality management
programs that rely on the collection of data
and leverage existing quality initiatives where
possible, remove duplication, address inconsistencies and fill gaps.
The report will now be submitted to the
Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
• Goudge Review of CMPA/
CPSO processes
Hon. Stephen Goudge will develop
recommendations by which the
process used to deal with complaints
about physicians to the CPSO can
be streamlined to permit decisions
to be made more efficiently and
cost-effectively.
• OHP/IHF Review by Health
Quality Ontario
An expert panel has been asked to
provide advice to government on
the current quality oversight programs for non-hospital based premises. Given its longstanding role in
facilities regulation and oversight,
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