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By Nicholas Handoll on June 8, 2011
The scope of osteopathic practice has been a contentious topic throughout the history of the osteopathic profession. This issue came to the fore in the UK in 2009, when the GOsC produced the draft Osteopathic Practice Framework. The GOsC document caused much concern and debate within the profession. In response, a group of osteopathic postgraduate [...]
Posted in Practice Framework |
By Ben Katz on November 30, 2010
Below are my final comments on the draft Osteopathic Practice Standards Document, which I have submitted to the consultants, Hewell Taylor Freed & Associates. Overall, I feel that this draft is an improvement on the documents it will replace but there is clearly much work still to be done to get it right. I look forward [...]
Posted in Practice Standards |
By Ben Katz on November 17, 2010
I have received a number of questions recently from colleagues struggling to find the Osteopathic Practice Standards document and the feedback questionnaire on the GOsC website. The relevant links can be found below. The consultation document can be found here. The feedback form can be found here. If you are filling in the form, make [...]
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By Donald Scott on November 10, 2010
This article is written after attending the Glasgow Focus Group to discuss the proposed Standard of Proficiency and Code of Practice document. In the introduction to the draft, the authers state that ‘the document presents all the standards of conduct and competence required of osteopaths to promote patient’s health and wellbeing and to protect them [...]
Posted in Code of Practice, GOsC consultations, Practice Standards |
By Ben Katz on September 17, 2010
This is the document that’s going to define osteopathic practice for the next ten years. With only a few weeks left to have your say, I thought I would share my view with anyone who’s finding the prospect of getting stuck into the document itself a little daunting. The Osteopathic Practice Standards (OPS) document seems, [...]
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By Ben Katz on June 26, 2009
I am a little concerned about the use of the phrase “fully informed consent” in standard 5.5 of the draft Osteopathic Practice Standards document. Whilst this is a sensible ideal, like most ideals it is a practical impossibility and its inclusion could inadvertantly create enormous problems for the profession. There will always be information that [...]
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By Martin Grundy on June 6, 2009
Osteopathic Practice Framework This document is largely made up of things I have stolen from other people – notably Peter Buxton’s excellent article in OT some years ago which predicted precisely the problem the GOsC now faces. I have stolen ideas and words from many other people and documents as well, and I make [...]
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By Martin Grundy on June 6, 2009
Osteopathic Practice Framework Introduction This document relates to the GOsC draft proposal for an Osteopathic Practice Framework (OPF). The approach taken in the draft OPF document has caused great concern to a number of osteopaths. In its consultation, the GOsC has asked for any suggestions for alternative approaches. This document is an attempt to sketch [...]
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By Mary Monro on May 18, 2009
I attended the GOsC meeting at the weekend and I was impressed with their new openness and receptiveness to the profession. They happily accept that the documents produced to date are flawed first drafts. This makes it even more important for everyone to respond, as they are open to change. There were about 170 delegates [...]
Posted in GOsC consultations, Practice Framework |
By Tom Greenfield on May 14, 2009
How many osteopaths have visited the private registrants ‘O’ zone on the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) website for anything other than to update your Continuing Professional Development record? The site contains helpful information about the current consultation on draft standards. The standards of competence expected of an osteopath are outlined in “Standard 2000 – Standard [...]
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By Tom Greenfield on May 9, 2009
The General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) has proudly launched their new public site, which openly asks the public to enter into the consultation process on defining osteopathy: At present, there is considerable lack of clarity about what constitutes osteopathic practice … we would like to hear whether you feel it necessary to define osteopathy and, if so, [...]
Posted in Practice Framework | Tagged definition, GOsC, osteopathy |
By Ben Katz on May 5, 2009
Defining the scope of osteopathic practice need not necessarily involve limiting our freedom to practise. I believe that a well-constructed Practice Framework document could actually safeguard us against any future attempt to limit osteopathic practice by those outside the profession who do not understand the philosophy our approach is based on. The Practice Framework is the [...]
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By BOA Council on May 5, 2009
This piece is reproduced with the kind permission of the BOA from the May edition of Osteopathy Today. It represents the view of the BOA Council. Revalidation GOsC invited the BOA to be involved from the very start of the consultation, and you may have read discussion articles that we published in the summer of [...]
Posted in GOsC consultations |
By Stuart Korth on April 30, 2009
Like it or not there is little doubt that the GOsC will go ahead with this project. Read between the lines of the draft document and you will see that there is a real potential for limiting the scope of osteopathy. I do not mean the restrictions on treating during pregnancy as it has already [...]
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By Tom Greenfield on April 29, 2009
As with most Government edicts, the proposed changes to osteopathy are generally seen as inevitable, and that we must work within the current system to make the best of what is to come. Over recent years regulation has become the scourge of businesses of every kind, much of it in the name of ‘Health & [...]
Posted in Practice Framework, Revalidation |
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