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Quality Assurance Program
The Quality Assurance (QA) Program is an important aspect of the College’s mandate. All Colleges under the Regulated Health Professions Act 1991 must develop, establish and maintain:
- Standards of practice (Essential Competencies) to assure quality of practice of the profession; and
- Programs to promote continuing competence among the members.
The goal of the Quality Assurance Program is to protect the public by working in partnership with Occupational Therapists in Ontario to support and provide them with data tools to demonstrate their ongoing competence.
- The program’s long term objectives are:
- Increase demonstration of conscious competent practice by therapists
- Reduce substandard practice and negative outcomes and risk of complaints for therapists
- Improve relations with occupational therapists regarding the QA program
- Increase demonstration of occupational therapists' compliance with and participation in the QA Program
- Increase public confidence in the delivery & receipt of competent occupational therapy services
- Strengthen relationships with stakeholders
- Improve accountability of an effective QA program
- Improve use and integration of information that is collected by the College and the Therapist
- Increase use of evidence in measurement and evaluation of competence
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