Annual Report 2013 | Page 5

President’s Message W elcome to the College’s 2013 Annual Report. It was a year marked with important milestones and new initiatives – all helping to ensure that Ontario patients receive the quality care that they deserve. If there was one phrase that defined 2013 for the CPSO, it would have to be “increasing transparency.” Indeed, over the last year, the connection between transparency and our mandate of protecting the public trust came into focus like never before. We have always believed that information provided by the College needs to provide assurance to the public that practitioners are competent and that the public is safe. But in 2013, we launched an initiative that began to put these beliefs into broader practice. If there was one phrase that defined 2013 for the CPSO, it would have to be “increasing transparency.” For example, after an external consultation, we decided last year to post the results of our Out-of-Hospital Premises Inspection Program (OHPIP) to our public register. OHPIP was one of our greatest achievements