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Updated Policy on Reporting Requirements
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Updated Policy on Reporting Requirements
One of CPSO’s most accessed policies restructured.

December 2024
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At its November meeting, the Board of Directors approved the newly titled Reporting Requirements policy, which sets out expectations regarding obligations to report certain events or clinical conditions. These requirements pertain to making a report about yourself, your patients, or other regulated health professionals to CPSO, other health regulatory bodies, or designated agencies.  

 

Some new expectations require you to:   

  • Notify patients about your duty to report, unless doing so would pose a genuine risk of harm to yourself and/or others;
  • Disclose only the information as required by law or necessary to address the risk of harm when making a report about a patient;
  • File reports in a timely manner where a timeline is not set out in law; and
  • Capture in the medical record relevant details of any report made about a patient. 

The key reporting requirements based in law have been moved from the policy and into a separate companion document titled Guide to Legal Reporting Requirements to improve usability. The Advice to the Profession document provides additional guidance.  

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