As an Edinburgh based Osteopath participating in the Pilot Revalidation scheme which is being supervised by our General Osteopathic Council and KPMG. we have to collect evidence, documentation and permission from a few selected patients and also ask fellow Osteopaths to come in and peer review and give us feedback.
Helen has been a Registered Osteopath, Trained at the European School of Osteopathy and graduated in 1981. As patients are feedbacking requests to read views about Osteopaths here are Helen`s reviews on Edinburgh on line
The Osteopaths have been given four revalidation Themes
- Communication and patient partnership
- Knowledge skills and performance
- Safety and quality in practice
- Professionalism
The General Osteopathic Council has given an overview of development of the revalidation scheme and the next steps in development.
Department of Health has the following expectations as described in the following paragraph.
In November 2010 the Department of Health wrote to the chief executives of all of the non-medical healthcare regulators setting out their current expectations in relation to the development of revalidation. Health ministers in the four countries of the UK have agreed that the healthcare professions regulators should “continue to gather the evidence base to assess the feasibility and proportionality of non-medical revalidation.” This means that we will be continuing with the developmental work that we are doing on revalidation. Click here to read the letter in full.
At the same time, the Department of Health released additional funding to the GOsC to support our revalidation pilot and to ensure that the proposed scheme is both proportionate and supported by robust analysis of the costs and benefits. This is good news for osteopaths as it will allow us to make effective progress in developing the scheme, while the grant of £167,000 means to develop our pilot scheme
Feedback from the pilot will be collated and analysed and will feed into a further consultation on revalidation. Depending on the results of the independent analyses and the consultation results, we plan to implement revalidation in 2014. However, the nature of this large project means that we must be very thorough, to ensure that the scheme meets the needs of osteopaths and patients. This means that timescales are flexible.
Helen How
Registered Osteopath
14 Craighall Gardens
Edinburgh EH6 4RJ
0131 551 1044
Fees £35.00 for one hour including consultation.
Simple follow up £20.00 for 30 mins