College of Chiropodists of Ontario

College of Chiropodists
of Ontario

Regulating Chiropodists and Podiatrists

We are the College of Chiropodists of Ontario, made up of chiropodists and podiatrists. We set standards of practice and conduct to ensure that you receive competent and safe care. All chiropodists and podiatrists who work in Ontario are responsible for meeting our standards.

We're here to protect your interests

Council Meeting Dates for 2010
Friday, June 4^th, 2010
Friday, October 1^st, 2010

What's New

Drug Regulation

If you are interested in reviewing the College’s regulation dealing with the prescribing of oral and topical medications and the administration of substances by injection into the foot, please refer to Regulation 338/08.
The information is specifically found in Part 1 of Regulation 338/08 and Schedules 1, 2, 3 and 4.
The following PDF document was prepared by Dr. Michael Beazely, University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy entitled " Recommendations for Pharmacotherapy Educational upgrading for Chiropodists in Ontario."
It was approved by College Council on February 5, 2010.

The Council of the College of Chiropodists is pleased to announce that Ruth Thompson has won the by-election in District 4. Ms. Thompson replaces Ms. Sally Ciona who recently resigned her position on Council when she moved outside of the Province.

The following document is the Fair Registration Practices Report (2009) for the College of Chiropodists of Ontario. The report was prepared for the Office of the Fairness Commissioner (OFC). The OFC requires all the regulated professions to submit reports about their registration practices and their compliance with the Fair Access to Regulated Professions Act, 2006 (FARPA) or the Health Professions Procedural Code (the Code) set out in Schedule 2 of the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991.

This link will present a 25 page PDF version of the College’s
Fair Registration Practices Report (2009).

HPRAC recently released its report entitled Critical Links: Transforming and Supporting Patient Care: Report to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care on Mechanisms to Facilitate and Support Interprofessional Collaboration and a New Framework for the Prescribing and Use of Drugs by Non-Physician Regulated Health Professions.

Our College was involved in the review. Please take a look at the report - you will find it very interesting. Chapter 7 specifically deals with chiropodists and podiatrists.
View the HPRAC report. View the College's reply to the report.

The allied health regulatory Colleges will be collecting personal information about their members, including basic demographic, geographic, education and employment information, and providing this information to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. This collection of personal information is authorized under section 36.1 of the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991. The Ministry will use and may disclose this information only for health human resources planning. If you have any questions about this collection, you can e-mail the Ministry's Allied Health Database Project Lead at forecasting@healthforceontario.ca or your regulatory College.

For more information visit the Health Force Ontario Web Site.

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