Revalidation

Time For Change?

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’ [...]

Thoughts on revalidation

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 [...]

Revalidation: Is there a point to it?

The two basic questions concerning Revalidation are ‘Why is it happening?’ and ‘What will it involve?’ A further question we should ask ourselves is ‘What can we get out of it?’
Why is it happening?
Revalidation comes out of the Shipman Enquiry and the various initiatives it has spawned, including the Foster Review. The government decided [...]