Toolbox helps MDs improve referral practices

Toolbox 
Several factors contribute to long waits for specialty care, and individual physicians have little if any opportunity to influence most of them.
However, there is one factor - inefficient referral processes - that physicians can tackle within their own practices. To help them do that, the CMA, the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada joined forces to create a Referral and Consultation Process Toolbox.......

see also:

Background

• MDs tackle referral processes in battle to reduce wait times
• The referral and consultation process: making the system work better for patient outcomes (multi-stakeholder summit, December 2011)
• Experiences with referrals: results of two surveys
• Referral and consultation (MD Lounge, Nov. 2010)
• Referrals (MD Lounge, Sept. 2008)

Ongoing initiatives in various jurisdictions:

• Referral and consultation process improvement projects