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This is an overview of the discussions and decisions made at the February Council meeting . |
The College has moved closer to having the authority to develop and implement a quality and inspections framework for the delivery of fertility services across the province . Council approved a draft regulation which proposes to bring premises , including hospital-based fertility clinics , under the Out of Hospital Premises Inspection Program ( OHPIP ). The regulation will now be submitted to government for approval . The most significant changes being proposed include :
• Adding three additional procedures – in vitro fertilization ( IVF ), artificial insemination , and sperm cryopreservation and oocyte cryopreservation – to the definition of procedure so that a
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premises performing any act in connection with the identified procedures would be subject to inspection-assessment under the OHPIP ;
• Requiring premises to provide an inspector with requested information such as BORN reports or data ; and
• Making hospital-based fertility clinics subject to inspectionassessment under the OHPIP .
The regulation has been worded so that practice settings , such as a family physician ’ s office , would not be inadvertently captured by the OHPIP . A companion document – entitled “ Applying the Out-of- Hospital Premises Inspection Program ( OHPIP ) Standards in Fertility Services Premises ” – is being finalized and will help fertility services
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Issue 1 , 2017 Dialogue 15 |