Continuity of Care: - Practice Resources - What you need to know:

Continuity of Care: Practice Resource Continuity of Care: Practice Resources Highlights from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario Advice to the Profession What you The recently updated Advice to the Profession: Continuity of Carefrom the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO)clarifies roles and responsibilities of family physicians and need to specialists collaborating i. [...] If they are able to obligation to suggest another assist in re-directing the referral, it would be helpful to do provider if they’re unable to accept so, especially where the referral is for urgent or unique the referral, the CPSO encourages issues. [...] follow-up care and administrative work which are the responsibility of Family physicians may not the physician who is billing for the insured service: have the expertise or resources needed to Making arrangements for appointments for the insured service. [...] It is important for The updated advice as well as the associated Transitions in Care Policy consultation reports to be reminds specialists of the requirement to share consultation reports no clear and include a later than 30 days after an assessment or a new finding, change in the summary of the patient’s care management plan. [...] (OMA) In some instances, a specialist may ask the family Specifies when it might be physician to arrange testing, for example, if during the appropriate for a specialist to ask course of an assessment a patient raises a concern the family physician to arrange unrelated to the consultation or the physician identifies testing but notes that the familyphysician must agree to accept an incidental find.