​CONSULTATIONS

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• Infection Prevention and Control for Clinical Office Practice – General Consultation

  CPSO wants you to help us refine the draft Infection Prevention and Control for Clinical Office Practice policy before it’s finalized.  This is a new policy which sets out expectations for infection prevention and control practices in physicians’ offices.   

  [Feedback Deadline 2024-05-06]

• Ending the Physician-Patient Relationship – Preliminary Consultation
  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]

• Accepting New Patients – Preliminary Consultation
  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]

• Professional Behaviour – General Consultation
  CPSO wants you to help us refine the draft Professional Behaviour policy before it’s finalized. The draft policy largely retains the core expectations of the current Physician Behaviour in the Professional Environment policy, but important updates have been made to clarify the policy’s scope and set out new expectations related to prohibiting retaliation for reporting and unprofessional behaviour by staff.

  [Feedback Deadline 2024-02-12]

• Physician Treatment of Self, Family Members, or Others Close to Them - Preliminary Consultation
  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]

• Principles of Medical Professionalism: Guiding Values and Duties – General Consultation
  CPSO wants to hear your feedback on the draft Principles of Medical Professionalism: Guiding Values and Duties. The draft resource is intended to provide broad guidance to the profession by articulating the values and duties of medical professionalism. The values and duties described in the draft inform the specific expectations set out in CPSO policies and work alongside these policies to help physicians deliver quality care to patients.

  [Feedback Deadline 2024-02-12]

• Consent to Treatment – Preliminary Consultation
  ​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]

• Proposed Regulatory Amendments to Regulate Physician Assistants

  CPSO wants to hear your feedback on the draft physician assistant (PA) regulatory amendments that address the enabling framework for PAs to perform controlled acts, PA entry-to-practice and Quality Assurance (CPD) requirements, and professional misconduct.

  Please review the consultation backgrounder and visit the dedicated consultation page for additional information and to provide your feedback.

  [Feedback Deadline 2023-08-14]

• Physician Behaviour in the Professional Environment

  CPSO wants you to help us update our current Physician Behaviour in the Professional Environment policy.

  This policy sets out physicians' responsibilities to patients, other health-care professionals, and the medical profession. As a companion to the policy, the Guidebook for Managing Disruptive Physician Behaviour – developed with the Ontario Hospital Association – aims to help clinicians foster medical professionalism and identify and effectively address disruptive behaviour.

  [Feedback Deadline 2023-05-04]

• Emergency Circumstances Practice Class of Registration

  CPSO wants to hear your feedback on the proposed regulation change to Ontario Regulation 865/93 (Registration) under the Medicine Act, 1991, setting out a new Emergency Circumstances Practice class of registration.

  [Feedback Deadline 2023-04-09]

• Practice Guide

  We want you to help us update our current Practice Guide.

  The Practice Guide is CPSO's key resource on medical professionalism. It lays out the values at the core of the medical profession, outlines what the public can expect from physicians, and organizes CPSO policies within a principled framework. Unlike policies, the Practice Guide does not set out specific expectations but instead provides broad guidance to the profession by articulating how physicians can enact the values, principles, and duties of professionalism in their practice.

  [Feedback Deadline 2023-02-13]

• Conflicts of Interest and Industry Relationships

  We want you to help us refine the newly retitled draft Conflicts of Interest and Industry Relationships policy before it's finalized.

  The draft policy retains the core expectations of the current Physicians' Relationships with Industry: Practice, Education and Research policy and includes a new section related to conflicts of interest under the Medicine Act, 1991, General regulation. The draft policy has been condensed and streamlined with the aim of enhancing its overall readability and utility for physicians.

  [Feedback Deadline 2023-02-13]

• Out-of-Hospital (OHP) Standards

  CPSO wants your feedback to help refine our draft OHP Standards. 

  These new draft OHP Standards are ten separate documents which set out the expectations of OHPs and the physicians who work within them.

  [Feedback Deadline 2023-01-03]

• Human Rights in the Provision of Health Services

  We want you to help us refine the newly retitled draft Human Rights in the Provision of Health Services policy before it's finalized. 

  The draft policy retains the majority of the core expectations in the existing Professional Obligations and Human Rights policy, but some important updates have been made to enhance clarity and better serve the public interest.

  [Feedback Deadline 2022-11-28]

• Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)

  We want you to help us refine our draft MAID policy before it's finalized. 

  The draft policy has been redesigned and streamlined: the majority of the core professional expectations set out in the current MAID policy have been retained while the legal requirements have been moved to a new companion resource.

  [Feedback Deadline 2022-11-28]

• Decision-Making for End-of-Life Care

  We want you to help us refine the newly retitled draft Decision-Making for End-of-Life Care policy before it's finalized. 

  The draft policy has been updated to be more concise and to focus solely on the most challenging end-of-life care decisions and the discussions that inform those decisions. Most notably, the draft policy sets out a new framework regarding withholding resuscitative measures and writing DNR orders. The aim of the draft policy is to strike a balance that both supports physician professional judgment and respects the diversity of patient wishes, values, and beliefs.

  [Feedback Deadline 2022-08-21]

• Blood Borne Viruses

  CPSO wants to hear your feedback on our current Blood Borne Viruses policy. 

  This policy sets out expectations in relation to blood borne viruses (BBV) for physicians performing or assisting in the performance of exposure prone procedures (EPPs). More specifically, in relation to testing, reporting, and managing positive infection statuses.

  [Feedback Deadline 2022-08-21]

• Mandatory and Permissive Reporting

  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]

• Dispensing Drugs

  We want you to help us refine our draft Dispensing Drugs policy before it's finalized.

  The draft policy expectations are based on the premise that physicians must meet the same standards as pharmacists when dispensing. The draft policy expectations are largely consistent with the current policy, with new expectations added related to patient counselling, patient choice on where to get drugs, and monitoring of recalled drugs.

  [Feedback Deadline 2022-08-07]

• Out-of-Hospital Premises (OHP) Standard: Image Guidance When Administering Nerve Blocks for Adult Chronic Pain

  CPSO wants your feedback to help refine our draft Out-of-Hospital Premises (OHP) Standard: Image Guidance When Administering Nerve Blocks for Adult Chronic Pain.

  This new OHP Standard is being developed to require image guidance when administering certain nerve blocks for adult chronic pain in OHPs to enhance patient safety and clarify CPSO's expectations.

  [Feedback Deadline 2022-03-22]

• Physicians' Relationships with Industry: Practice, Education and Research

  CPSO wants to hear your feedback on our current Physicians' Relationships with Industry: Practice, Education and Research policy to help inform the development of an updated policy. 

  This policy sets out expectations for physicians around professionalism and avoiding conflicts of interest in their interactions with commercial enterprises associated with health care (i.e., “industry”).

  [Feedback Deadline 2022-03-22]

• Virtual Care

  CPSO wants your feedback on our draft Virtual Care policy that sets out expectations for physicians on when and how to provide appropriate virtual care.

  [Feedback Deadline 2021-11-22]

• Dispensing Drugs

  CPSO wants to hear your feedback on our current Dispensing Drugs policy that sets out expectations for physicians who dispense drugs, including those around the procurement, storage, record keeping, packing, labelling, and disposal of drugs.

  [Feedback Deadline 2021-10-21]

• Social Media

  CPSO wants to hear your feedback on our new draft Social Media policy that sets out expectations for physicians using social media.

  [Feedback Deadline 2021-08-26]

• Medical Assistance in Dying

  CPSO wants to hear your feedback on our current Medical Assistance in Dying policy. 

  The current policy helps physicians understand their legal obligations with respect to medical assistance in dying (MAID) and sets out professional expectations for issues not addressed in the legislation.

  [Feedback Deadline 2021-05-13]

• Professional Obligations and Human Rights

  CPSO wants to hear your feedback on our current Professional Obligations and Human Rights policy.

  The current policy sets out physicians' legal and professional obligations under the Ontario Human Rights Code, along with professional expectations that address instances where physicians limit the services they provide for reasons of clinical competence and conscience or religion.

  [Feedback Deadline 2021-05-13]

• Planning for and Providing Quality End-of-Life Care

  CPSO wants to hear your feedback on our current Planning for and Providing Quality End-of-Life Care policy.

  The current policy sets out expectations for physicians on a number of issues related to planning for and providing end-of-life care, including advance care planning, palliative care, potentially life-saving and life-sustaining treatments, dying at home, and managing conflicts.

  [Feedback Deadline 2021-05-13]