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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 is [...]
Posted in Practice Standards, Uncategorized |
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 no claims [...]
Posted in Practice Framework |
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 out such [...]
Posted in Practice Framework |
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 [...]
Posted in Practice Standards |
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, how [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Practice Framework |
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 2006. [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Practice Framework |
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 & Safety’ [...]
Posted in Practice Framework, Revalidation |
By Nicholas Handoll on April 27, 2009
Attempts have been made to define osteopathy throughout the forty years I have been associated with this profession. They have failed because finally the conclusion was reached that osteopathy cannot be defined; it can only be described. To define means to place limits on. In attempting to define the scope of osteopathic practice, is the [...]
Posted in Practice Framework |
By Leon Chaitow on April 23, 2009
It seems that revalidation is an inevitable process, since we (osteopathy) are being dragged along in the wake of the medical and associated professions, who are heading down this route.
If something is inevitable – like it or not – then we need to attempt to mould the process as much as is feasible – or [...]
Posted in Revalidation |
By Martin Grundy on April 20, 2009
The Standards of Proficiency, the Osteopathic Practice Framework and the Revalidation scheme all refer to it. It is against the Code that we are judged at PCC hearings. If everything else is right and the Code of Practice is wrong then the profession is stuffed. That means that it is essential that [...]
Posted in Code of Practice |
By Martin Grundy on April 20, 2009
This document is a huge improvement on S2K: it is clear and it addresses pretty much all the objections I had to S2K. I always felt that the S2K looked like someone’s picture of the perfect osteopath – wise, massively experienced, hugely talented, a paragon of scholastic endeavour with knowledge encompassing the whole of [...]
Posted in Practice Standards |
By Martin Grundy on April 20, 2009
Leaving aside the first 3 paragraphs, which lay out the aims of the document, the first part of the document (up to and including paragraph 11) is OK, good or very good.
Paragraphs 12-19 are also generally OK, despite the fact that I find the whole concept of “Typical experience” objectionable. My problems with this [...]
Posted in Practice Framework |
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