Perspectives
Reading Perspectives is the best way to stay up to date with news and updates from the College. It’s also packed full of helpful resources for physiotherapists.
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Check Out Our Updated Privacy Resource
Whether you’re new to Ontario, or you’ve practiced here your whole career, knowing how to manage personal health information is an important part of your job.
Our newly updated Privacy Resource outlines the most important things you need to know about privacy and your responsibilities as a health-care provider.
It includes:
- Guidance based on your practice setting
- Information on how to manage privacy breaches
- Advice for communicating with patients by email or text
- Instructions on how to write a privacy statement for your clinic
- Explanations of key principles like health information custodian, lock box and more
- A checklist to help you test your privacy knowledge
Updated Controlled Acts Standard
The College’s Board of Directors has approved a revised Controlled Acts Standard, effective August 1, 2026.
Please take some time to review the standard and familiarize yourself with the updated requirements.
We’ll include a list of top highlights from the new standard in the July edition of Perspectives.
Answering Your Questions About Leaving a Practice
Among the thousands of calls and emails the Practice Advisors answer every year, questions about leaving a job are a popular topic.
It makes sense. Between your responsibilities to patients and obligations to your employer, there’s a lot to think about as you’re taking the next step in your career.
The College’s Leaving a Practice Checklist captures your most important professional obligations – so it’s an essential place to start if you’re looking for guidance.
To further support you, this blog will take a closer look at some of the most common questions about leaving a practice.
Myth vs Fact
You must ensure that patients can access a one-page summary of your organization’s privacy policy.
Is this a myth or a fact?
Practice Advice Question
What should I consider if a patient shares information with me but then asks me not to include it in their chart?
2SLGBTQIA+ Health Resources
Happy Pride Month!
This June, we celebrate 2SLGBTQIA+ communities and reaffirm our commitment to ensuring all Ontarians have access to safe and competent health-care regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation.
Here’s a collection of resources to help you deepen your knowledge and better serve 2SLGBTQIA+ patients.
- Our blog Providing Culturally Safe and Welcoming Care for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Patients offers practical tips you can use in your practice.
- Rainbow Health Ontario has a large library of resources and training opportunities including: Practical Strategies for More 2SLGBTQ+ Inclusive Electronic Health Records, Health in Focus: Racialized 2SLGBTQ Health, 2SLGBTQ+ Trauma Informed Care
- TransHealthTO offers information on changes you can make in your clinic or workplace to improve care for trans patients, important terms to know and more.
Case of the Month: Clear Records Make a Difference
The Documentation Standard requires physiotherapists to maintain records that are accurate, complete, and written in a timely manner. The patient record should be detailed enough that another physiotherapist could take over care and have all the relevant information.
Good record-keeping protects patients and physiotherapists.
In a new Case of the Month we look at how records come into play when there’s a complaint and the patient and the physiotherapist have different versions of what happened.
June Board Meeting Highlights
The College’s Board of Directors met on June 18 and 19.
View a summary of highlights and key decisions from the meeting at the link below.
The next meeting of the Board is scheduled for September 21 and 22.
Welcome New Registrants
The College would like to welcome our newly registered physiotherapists.
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