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Help inform our regulatory work by providing your feedback to our public consultations.
Your feedback helps us to assess our guidance and expectations and supports us in fulfilling our mandate to serve the public interest.
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Current Consultations
We invite you to participate in our open consultations. Your feedback on our policies, regulations, by-laws, and other initiatives is essential to informing our work.
There are currently no open consultations.
Closed Consultations
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CPSO wants you to help us refine the draft Consent to Treatment policy before it’s finalized. The draft policy largely retains the core expectations of the current Consent to Treatment policy, but important updates have been made to differentiate legal and professional responsibilities, clarify the definitions of implied and express consent, and provide guidance in other key areas.
[Feedback Deadline 2024-11-11]
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CPSO wants you to help us update our Closing a Medical Practice policy, which sets out expectations for physicians who are closing their medical practice for an extended period of time due to retirement, relocation, leave of absence, or as a result of disciplinary action.
[Feedback Deadline 2024-11-11]
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CPSO wants to hear your feedback on the draft Reporting Requirements policy and the accompanying companion documents before they’re finalized. The draft policy has been redesigned and streamlined. The policy contains professional expectations set by CPSO for physicians with respect to reporting, while the legal reporting requirements have been moved to a new companion document.
[Feedback Deadline 2024-08-06]
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CPSO wants you to help us update our Ending the Physician-Patient Relationship policy that sets out expectations for physicians who end their treating relationship with a patient for any reason other than the physician’s retirement, relocation, leave of absence, or because of disciplinary action by the College.
[Feedback Deadline 2024-05-06]
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CPSO wants you to help us update our Accepting New Patients policy that helps Ontario’s physicians ensure that decisions to accept new patients are equitable, transparent, and non-discriminatory.
[Feedback Deadline 2024-05-06]
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CPSO wants you to help us update our current Physician Treatment of Self, Family Members, or Others Close to Them policy. The policy sets out legal and professional obligations for physicians regarding the limited circumstances in which it is appropriate for physicians to treat themselves, family members, or other individuals with whom they have a personal or close relationship.
[Feedback Deadline 2024-02-12]
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CPSO wants to hear your feedback on the current Consent to Treatment policy, which sets out physicians’ legal obligations and professional expectations with respect to obtaining consent to treatment.
[Feedback Deadline 2024-02-12]
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CPSO wants to hear your feedback on our current Mandatory and Permissive Reporting policy to help inform the development of an updated policy. This policy outlines when physicians are required or permitted by law to report particular events or clinical conditions to government or regulatory agencies.
[Feedback Deadline 2022-08-21]