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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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