CONSULTATIONS
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.
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[Feedback Deadline: 2025-08-01]CPSO wants you to help us update our current Providing Physician Services During Job Actions (“Job Actions”) policy, which sets out expectations for physicians who are considering participating in and/or participating in a job action (e.g., a strike).
[Feedback Deadline 2025-08-01]
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[Feedback Deadline: 2025-08-01]CPSO wants you to help us update our current Public Health Emergencies policy, which sets out expectations of physicians during a public health emergency.
[Feedback Deadline 2025-08-01]
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[Feedback Deadline: 2025-08-01]CPSO wants you to help us update our current Uninsured Services: Billing and Block Fees ("Uninsured Services") policy, which sets out expectations for physicians when billing for services not covered by the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP).
[Feedback Deadline 2025-08-01]
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[Feedback Deadline: 2025-08-01]CPSO wants you to help us refine the draft Closing a Medical Practice policy before it’s finalized. The draft policy has been revised to be more principle-based, and informs physicians about how they can minimize disruptions to continuity of care for their patients when they close their practice.
[Feedback Deadline 2025-08-01]
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[Feedback Deadline: 2025-08-01]CPSO wants to hear your feedback on draft amendments to two provisions of the current Delegation of Controlled Acts policy to clarify what constitutes appropriate delegation.
[Feedback Deadline 2025-08-01]
Closed Consultations
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CPSO wants you to help us update the Boundary Violations policy. The policy sets out expectations for physicians regarding sexual and non-sexual boundaries, intimate examinations, sexual relationships with former patients, sexual relationships with persons close to patients, and mandatory reporting duties.
[Feedback Deadline 2025-05-09]
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CPSO wants you to help us update the Delegation of Controlled Acts policy which sets out expectations for physicians about when and how they may delegate controlled acts.
[Feedback Deadline 2025-05-09]
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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]