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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 medical [...]
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