Canadian Physiotherapy Association / Association canadienne de physiotherapie
Registration:
14
of
21
(2020-04-01
to
2021-04-14)
Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit
- Caseload Guidelines:
Joint application for funding from Health Canada for Caseload Guidelines development for Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy. and Speech Language Pathology.
Policies or Program
- Adult physiotherapy services covered under the Non-Insured Health Benefits program
- Canada's COVID-19 Economic Response Plan - changes to financial supports provided in response to COVID-19 pandemic to ensure physiotherapists are included in supports, regardless of business models in place. Programs of interest include Canada Emergency Response Benefit, Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy, Canada Emergency Business Account and Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance program.
- Canada's response to COVID-19 pandemic: ensure personal protective equipment is available to physiotherapists working in all health care settings.
- Enable support and funding for those communities that could potentially benefit most from telerehabilitation services, including Indigenous, First Nations, Inuit and Metis and rural and remote populations, where infrastructure may presently exclude them from access (no cellular or internet service/access)
- Health Human Resource Strategy:
Explore opportunities to develop health human resource strategy for the profession of physiotherapy.
- Improving access to safe and effective pain management, such as physiotherapy, as an upstream response to the opioid crisis
- Internationally Educated Health Professionals:
Monitoring issues related to emerging needs of profession and population.
- Raise awareness about the role of physiotherapy within a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare and educate policymakers on how physiotherapy can help reduce healthcare costs, support preventative care and contribute to a healthier Canadian population at all stages of life.
- Remove the requirement that employees of the federal public service must get a referral from a medical doctor before qualifying for reimbursement for physiotherapy services under the Public Service Health Care Plan.