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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Like many others I have spoken to recently, I have been feeling somewhat overwhelmed by the barrage of consultation documents I have received from the GOsC of late. They raise many important issues that will have a profound impact on the future of Osteopathy in the UK and there is a lot of ground to [...]
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