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 of Proficiency”. We are told that the new consultation document can be filled in on your computer and emailed to the GOsC:
“Following a review of the Standard of Proficiency, the GOsC is currently consulting on draft revised Osteopathic Practice Standards … We would welcome your views on the draft Osteopathic Practice Standards.”
Unfortunately at the time of writing, the link to the PDF on Practice Standards leads to a page claiming: “The page you were looking for doesn’t exist.” Fortunately there is a helpful link to the website administrators to tell them about the problem. Is this the benchmark to which we should all aspire?
Update: I received an email from the GOsC fairly soon after writing the above post, thanking me for alerting them to the fact that the link is broken due to the new public site being updated. I was offered 4 links to pages where I could download the S2K Standards of Proficiency document in PDF format, 2 of them on the public site: http://www.osteopathy.org.uk/resources/publications/standards-of-practice/ and http://www.osteopathy.org.uk/information/standards-of-training-practice/ (all four links offering the same documents to download, so I have now downloaded S2K four times) but none of them the actual new consultation document promised on the ‘O’ Zone.
I may have to resort to pen and paper after all … Oh, here’s the link at last: http://www.osteopathy.org.uk/about/our-work/consultations-events/
The consultation closes on 30 June 2009.