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Prosthetic and Orthotic Encroachment within Canada
1. Encroachment…
What?
A review of prosthetic and orthotic encroachment
across Canada by means of a web-based survey
By Connor Pardy M.Sc. C.P.O.
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2. OPC Membership Survey
• November 2015
• Top issues membership felt needed to be addresse
• Awareness of profession by government
• Awareness of the profession by third party payers
• Competition from outside the profession
• Government regulations of the profession
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En-croach-ment
• enˈkrōCHmənt/noun
• noun: encroachment; plural noun: encroachments
1) intrusion on a person's territory, rights, etc.
"minor encroachments on our individual liberties"
6. Q2: In which province or territory
do you work?
• Answered: 99 Skipped: 2
Response
Percent
Response
Count
14.9% 15
23.8% 24
9.9% 10
2.0% 2
1.0% 1
1.0% 1
40.6% 41
1.0% 1
3.0% 3
3.0% 3
0.0% 0
Manitoba
Prince Edward Island
Answer Options
Newfoundland and Labrador
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
Ontario
NewBrunswick
Quebec
Alberta
Nova Scotia
NorthwestTerritories,Nunavutand/orYukon
7. Q3: Have you experienced clinical
or technical encroachment?
• Answered: 96 Skipped: 5
8. Q4: Which statement defines best your
definition of “encroachment”. Please
choose one of the following?
• Answered: 97 Skipped: 4
Other:
All the above 4%
9. Q5: If you have experienced encroachment, please rank
what you believe is the primary reason it has
occurred. On the 1-5 scale scale below please rank the
following 1 being a minor reason to 5 being a major
reason you have experienced encroachment.
• Answered: 88 Skipped: 13
11. Q6: From what other professions have you
experienced encroachment? Please rank from
most experiences of encroachment (1 ) to least
(11). Please read all answers prior to ranking.
• Answered: 88 Skipped: 13
12. Q7: If not included please indicate
below other sources of
encroachment you have
experienced:
• 20% response rate
• Retailers
• Athletic Therapists
• Health care stores
• TV/ online sales
• Plaster (cast) technologist
• Pharmacists
• Trade shows and malls
Ebay.com found on July 23 2016 at http://stores.ebay.com/Solace-Bracing
13. Q8: What is your definition of orthotic
and prosthetic encroachment?
• 76 responses
• In summary
• Someone providing treatment outside their training or scope
of practice
• Roughly 50 responses
• Other people without education to provided services
• Someone who is not a certified prosthetist or orthotist providing
services within the scope of a certified practitioner.
14. Q9: How do we as certifees, address the issue of
encroachment (please rank from most important
(1) to least important (6)? Please read all
answers prior to ranking.
• Answered: 93 Skipped: 6
15. Strengths and Impact of encroachment (Questions 11 and 12)
A
Strengths of encroachment Impact of
encroachment
16. Summary
• 86% or respondents across
the country have
experience some form of
professional encroachment
• Majority in orthotics 80%
• Membership believes
public
education/awareness and
marketing to be the most
important issues to address
17. Potential courses of actions
• Approach appropriate colleges with concerns
• Have P and O taught nationally at medical schools
• Use the Pentland fund for licensure
• Set up a national marketing and negotiating committees
OPC
• Advertise/market/PR
• Lobbying groups for OPC across Canada
18. Immediate Start
• Currently there is not defined SCOPE of PRACTICE
document.
• Over 500 or the responses mentioned something to do this SoP
• Practice analysis and CPORM documentation are to be used to
establish this criteria.
“ I am sorry I didn’t support you; I will try to do a better job in the future…”
19. Thank you
Thomas Munsford
• Knowledge, the ability to analyze
gait, determine deviations,
establish which forces are
necessary to resist, assist, and/or
correct those deviations, then
utilize materials and components,
design, manufacture and critique
our devices for the best possible
outcomes for the patient….
In November 2015 OPC surveyed membership from this survey among the top issues to address as outlined by membership
Came four things
Awareness of profession by government
Awareness of the profession by third party payers
Competition from outside the profession
Government regulations of the profession
It really brought forth the questions of where we were headed….
The topic I wanted to discuss today is….
What does this word mean?
Google defines En croach ment as:
intrusion on a person's territory, rights, etc.
If we umbrella the previous slide all of the four major things that we as members felt were priorty to act upon are incased in this topic.
Lets Quicklylook at some of the demographics…
Informatics and data collection is pretty incredible now a days….
Send on June 20th 2016 to all 558 members across Canada only 63 % of those who received the email opened it…. 379 opened the email with the survey link and roughly 60% Of that 155 people clicked the link and 66% of people who clicked a link… 101 of them left something behind… and 5 % of you ate yogurt this morning…..
In summary it appears as if rougly an 18 % response rate
So what we can conclude…. About 37% of memberships emails don’t work……and 70 percent of you are apathetic
The first question looked at the respondents recognized certification
Question 2 addressed the respondents location in Canada
The third question was the most direct…. Have you
Question 4 ….. Which statement defines best your definition of encroachment?
There always has to be one….. Sole providers hip
A clear majority look at the scope of practice to be the defining benchmark for encroachment
Others of note.. included.: all the above 2%
Average rating out of 5
Not enough certified clinicians
Not enough education Not enough evidence Not enough public awareness Not enough professional representation Not enough professional support or resources (from within our profession) Not enough professional marketing Not enough professional colleague awareness To much competition
76 responses
Thank you to the ¾;s of cets whom answered this question
But being that it was open ended I had a mix of responses.
The majority of responses….
In my opinion the best response was…..
Respondents indicated that the major strength of professional encroachment was minimal as 30% believe to have no positive impact while 20 % indicated that it defines our role as a specialist
Encroachment has or may leave to the loss of our professional status and potential referral sources.
Membership presented these are potential resolutions
Of note
Finally a small activity
Look at the person to your left and say……
Change starts with the people who care the most… we can all activity participate to increase our breath of visibility. Whether its partnerships, education with students, group discussions, presentations, lectures, committee’s being a board member,
It starts because we care…
On a personal note I wanted to thank the people who took the time to answer the full survey and to those who shared personal examples of their experience I did read all the comments
I paraphrase one respondent who paraphrased thomas munsford an American orthotist from the 1970……