Telemedicine – Preliminary Consultation (CLOSED)

Tell us what you think:

We want you to help us update our current Telemedicine policy.

This policy sets out expectations for physicians who provide telemedicine, or virtual care as it’s more commonly referred to today. We are reviewing the policy to make sure it sets the right expectations and provides helpful guidance to physicians and we want your feedback at this early stage to help inform what changes we make.

An Advice to the Profession: Telemedicine document also accompanies the policy, providing general advice or guidance on specific practice issues.

View the current policy and Advice document.

 View the feedback received through our online survey.

View the feedback received through our online discussion page.

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Have your say:

We want to hear your thoughts on the current policy. For example, some general questions we have include:

• Does the current policy serve and protect the public interest? Does it contain practical expectations for physicians?

• How can the CPSO support and enable the delivery of appropriate and high-quality virtual care?

• What issues relating to virtual care are physicians and the public looking to the CPSO to provide guidance on or set expectations for?

• What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of providing care virtually that you’ve observed as a result of the widespread transformation that’s occurred during the pandemic?

Or please answer the specific questions we have in our online survey regarding the current policy content (click here to download the PDF list of questions).

Please provide your feedback by November 16, 2020.

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Next Steps:

Your feedback is important to us. Your comments will be carefully reviewed and used to help us evaluate the current policy.

CPSO Council will ultimately determine what policy revisions will be made when finalizing and approving the policy.

Thank you for participating!