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WSIB Form 26 — Health Professional’s Progress Report
Form 26 is WSIB’s Health Professional’s Progress Report. You use it after the first report (Form 8) when the worker is still under your care, when status has changed, or when WSIB asks for an update. It is not a new Form 8, not a FAF, and not an OCF-18. It answers: what has changed, what has not, and what work they can do now.
What Form 26 is asking
WSIB already has a claim. Form 26 is the interval note: current diagnosis, recovery compared with last report, treatment, specialist involvement, and current work capabilities. Copying Form 8 and changing the date is how progress reports become useless.
Get the current Form 26 from wsib.ca health-care provider forms (WSIB also lists a continuity report, Form REO8, for some situations). Use the form WSIB asked for. Submit through WSIB’s current channel. Entitled reports are billed as WSIB publishes in its fee schedule — not as an OHIP visit add-on.
Progress means change or a reason there is none
If nothing has changed, say so and say why (awaiting MRI, infection, non-attendance). A cloned “improving” paragraph three months in a row with the same restrictions will be read as no plan.
Who completes Form 26
- The treating health professional currently managing the compensable injury.
- If care has transferred, the new MRP completes the progress report from their assessments, not from the ER Form 8 they never saw.
- Specialists complete progress or consultation reports for their part of the claim. Do not overwrite a surgeon’s weight-bearing status with a guess.
- Do not complete Form 26 if you have not seen the worker since the last report.
How to complete the sections
- Claim number, worker identifiers, date of this assessment.
- Current diagnosis. If it has been upgraded (strain to disc herniation with imaging), say when and on what evidence.
- Subjective change and objective change. ROM, strength, wound, PHQ — only the measures you actually took.
- Treatment since last report: PT attendance, injections, surgery date, meds. Missed appointments belong here if they affect recovery.
- Complications and unrelated conditions that are slowing return to work — labelled as unrelated when they are.
- Work status now: regular, modified with specific restrictions, or unfit, and the next clinical milestone.
- Expected date of return to regular work if you can support one. “TBD” forever is a plan to be asked again.
If the worker has plateaued, say plateaued. That is when WSIB may look at a FAF, a work transition, or a different program of care — not when you write another identical Form 26.
Worked example (fictional)
Form 26 — six weeks after lumbar strain
Fictional 29-year-old PSW. Do not copy into a real Form 26.
Claim on file. Assessment 2026-10-06. Course: Form 8 2026-08-26 acute lumbar strain. PT x 8, now attending. No red flags then or now. Now: pain 3/10 at rest, 6/10 after 30 min standing. Lumbar flexion improved; SLR still negative; neuro intact. Imaging: none. No radiculopathy to justify MRI today. Work: has been on no-transfer duties. Can now lift 15 kg from waist, no floor lifts, no repeated bending >10/hour. Trial of assisted transfers with a second person next week. Next: reassess 3 weeks. If no further gain, discuss FAF with workplace. This is Form 26, not a new Form 8.
Why Form 26 gets queried
- A photocopy of the last report with a new date.
- Work status unchanged for months with no treatment change and no explanation.
- New body parts added without a new injury history (the “migrating claim”).
- Missing claim number or practitioner identifiers.
- Using Form 26 when WSIB asked for a FAF.
Complete Form 26 from today’s assessment, not last month’s note
In Scribeberry, open Forms, search for WSIB Form 26, or upload the current PDF from wsib.ca. Generate from the encounter and your notes, then review every field before you sign. The clinician still certifies the content. Scribeberry does not file with WSIB.
Frequently asked questions
Can I send another Form 8 instead of Form 26?
No. Form 8 is the first report. Further clinical updates are Form 26 (or the specific program-of-care / continuity form WSIB asked for). A second Form 8 months later looks like you never treated them in between.
Is Form 26 the same as the FAF?
No. Form 26 is a medical progress report. The Functional Abilities Form (2647A) is a functional snapshot for return to work. You may need both. They answer different questions.
What if the worker missed physiotherapy?
Say so. Attendance is relevant to recovery and to WSIB. Do not invent improvement you have not seen.
Does Scribeberry submit Form 26 to WSIB?
No. Scribeberry helps you complete the PDF from clinical context. You submit it through WSIB’s process. You keep a copy in the chart.
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