C-26, r. 207.2.01 - Code of ethics of psychoeducators

Section 29 Disposition versions

2013-11-21

29. Psychoeducators must respond promptly, at the latest within 20 days of its receipt, to any request made by a client to have information that is inaccurate, incomplete, ambiguous, outdated or unjustified corrected or deleted in any document concerning the client. In addition, psychoeducators must notify the client of the client’s right to make written comments and file them in the record.

Psychoeducators must give the client, free of charge, a duly dated copy of the document or part of the document filed in the record so that the client may verify that the information has been corrected or deleted or, as applicable, give the client an attestation stating that the client’s written comments have been filed in the record.

Psychoeducators must forward a copy, free of charge, of the corrected information or an attestation stating that the information has been deleted or, as applicable, that the written comments have been filed in the record, to every person from whom psychoeducators received the information that was the subject of the correction, deletion or comments, and to every person to whom the information was communicated.

O.C. 1073-2013, s. 29.