EPI Primary Care Package

Over the past year EPION’s Community of Interest (CoI) has been working on a few documents to support primary care in the early detection and facilitation of access to our EPI services. We have created a generic letter and information sheet.

The idea has been that once a client has been referred to an EPI service, the EPI program would then send an information package back to the client’s primary care that would help to inform future referrals to the EPI service.

The package includes the following:

• Generic letter (this letter has general information about the transfer of care)
  • EPION – Generic letter to primary care – Oct 2016 – English
  • EPION – Generic letter to primary care – Oct 2016 – Francais
• One page information sheet regarding psychosis and what EPI services offer
  • Two English versions (due to referral process):
    within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)
    and outside the GTA.
  • Deux versions en français (en raison du processus  d’aiguillage):
    pour ceux dans la Région du Grand Toronto
    et pour ceux en dehors de l’Ontario
• EPION’s Anatomy of First Episode Psychosis infographic
  • English
  • French

As we have mentioned when reviewing these at the EPION Network meetings, these documents would be standard across all EPI services; however, we recognize that different clinics may have additional information they provide to primary care as indicated.