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This is an overview of the discussions and decisions made at the February Council meeting. |
The College has moved closer to having the authority to develop and implement a quality and inspections framework for the delivery of fertility services across the province. Council approved a draft regulation which proposes to bring premises, including hospital-based fertility clinics, under the Out of Hospital Premises Inspection Program( OHPIP). The regulation will now be submitted to government for approval. The most significant changes being proposed include:
• Adding three additional procedures – in vitro fertilization( IVF), artificial insemination, and sperm cryopreservation and oocyte cryopreservation – to the definition of procedure so that a
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premises performing any act in connection with the identified procedures would be subject to inspection-assessment under the OHPIP;
• Requiring premises to provide an inspector with requested information such as BORN reports or data; and
• Making hospital-based fertility clinics subject to inspectionassessment under the OHPIP.
The regulation has been worded so that practice settings, such as a family physician’ s office, would not be inadvertently captured by the OHPIP. A companion document – entitled“ Applying the Out-of- Hospital Premises Inspection Program( OHPIP) Standards in Fertility Services Premises” – is being finalized and will help fertility services
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Issue 1, 2017 Dialogue 15 |