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HCPC launches consultation on guidance for professional indemnity cover and registration

Press Release: HCPC launches consultation on guidance for professional indemnity cover and registration 10/06/2013 consultation on guidance for professional indemnity cover and registration Quote: The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) has launched an eight week consultation to seek the views of stakeholders on guidance for registrants in relation to professional indemnity cover and registration. The Government are proposing that all health professionals must hold professional indemnity cover as a condition of registration. This is subject to parliamentary approval and will apply to all of the professions regulated by the HCPC with the exception of social workers in England* Continue reading →

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Altimus the new Parish & Bell?

Two seperate patients in the last week have brought to my attention the way a company called Altimus in the Kensington area of London are practising. Both have been advised they needed orthoses, the first quoted £1500, and the second just over £1000 Continue reading →

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Foot Health Practitioner – 2nd year student

Hi, I have just finished my second year studying Podiatry and somewhere along the line I have been lead to believe that once you have passed the 2nd year you are able to treat people as a foot health practitioner. I am struggling to find any information to clarify this, especially with regards legalities (can you use a scalpel etc). Can anyone help please?? Continue reading →

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Titles

Can a RETIRED CHIROPODIST/PODIATRIST use the words as above? Is it in breach of current regulations? Continue reading →

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Langer Biomechanics Summer School 2013

Who is going to be there? http://langergrp.com/biomechanics-summer-school/ Continue reading →

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Struck off for using work mobile phone for personal use

Press Release: Dietitian struck off for using work mobile phone for personal use Quote: Dietitian Iman O’Donnell has been struck off the HCPC Register for using her work mobile for personal calls and texts, incurring a significant bill for her employer, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. Continue reading →

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Scope for "Foot Health Professionals"

I have just seen an advert by a foor health professional offering “treatment of the diabetic foot”. Is this really within their scope of activities Continue reading →

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Advice for returner please…?

I am thinking of returning to the profession after time out – quite a long time out…..! I am just getting to grips with the HCPC requirements etc. and have spent the afternoon hunting through the attic for my chiropody diploma (MChS, SRCh) and podiatry degree cert, but no luck. As the CPSM has now been disbanded and the academic institution ( PCL- now Uni of Westminster) no longer offers the degree, I don’t know where to start to get copies etc Continue reading →

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Warning over bogus HCPC calls

Press Release: Warning over bogus HCPC calls Quote: We have received reports that employers of HCPC registrants are being targeted by bogus callers, claiming to be from the HCPC and requesting personal information. Continue reading →

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clinic rooms to rent – Winchester, UK

I`m relocating my clinic, so my current landlord has asked me to put word our there that the rooms are up for grabs to rent. The lease includes one large and one (very) small treatment room, large waiting room with kitchenette and WC. Located within a dental practice in an affluent area of Winchester, Hampshire Continue reading →

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