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

Continuity of Care: Practice Resources 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. [...] 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. [...] For example, if during appropriate for a specialist to ask the course of an assessment a patient raises a concern the family physician to arrange unrelated to the consultation or the physician identifies an testing but notes that the family incidental finding, it may be appropriate for the specialist physician must agree to accept to notify the family physician that additional testing my be respon. [...] It is generally good practice to copy the family physician on Clarifies that copying family test requisitions so they are aware of the tests ordered and physicians on test requisitions the results; however, they would have no additional should be for information responsibilities in regard to the tests or results.