reports from council
hearing day. This represented approximately
50% of the estimated fixed costs for a day of
hearings. (It does not include such things as
investigative costs and legal costs to prepare
the matter for a hearing, witness expenses,
expert expenses, etc.). The last time the rate
was changed was in 2013 when the tariff
increased from $3650 to $4460. The change
is effective January 1, 2016.
And as part of the effort to attract physicians to College work, Council approved an
inflationary increase in per diems for physicians Council and Committee members. The
increase is effective January 1, 2016.
Fertility Services Oversight
Council has directed that staff continue to
work with the Ministry of Health to develop
a comprehensive quality oversight regime for
infertility services.
A change to the Out-of-Hospital Premises (OHP) regulation will be required in
order to enable the College to regulate these
services. Currently, the OHP program only
covers some of the procedures associated
with IVF.
Council agreed that this is an area of
medicine that could benefit from quality
oversight. Infertile patients are particularly
vulnerable and problems have arisen in the
past with respect to both billing and clinical
practices.
The government has announced its intention to fund IVF in Ontario.
QMP: Building on Strong Foundations
Council was provided with an overview of
the Quality Management Partnership’s report
“Building on Strong Foundations: Inaugural
Report on Quality in Colonoscopy, Mammography and Pathology.”
Building on the Phase 2 Report (March
2015), the inaugural report begins to provide
a provincial baseline for quality in each of
the three service areas. The aim of the report
is to invite dialogue with stakeholders and to
illustrate to those audiences how the quality management programs can build on the
baseline to fill gaps and increase consistency
of service delivery.
Registration Committee policies
Council reviewed and approved minor
house-keeping changes that the Registration Committee recommended be made to
the Re-entering Practice policy and the
Changing Scope of Practice policy. Both
policies are scheduled for a full review in
2016.
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