Health Professions Council
EBONY GAYLE, PRESS & PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER, HEALTH PROFESSIONS COUNCIL
HPC Fringe Events at Party Conferences – Trust and Openness in the NHS: From Paternalism to Partnership HPC have been busy at the Liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative Party Conferences this autumn. Together with the Medical Protection Society (MPS) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), the HPC held fringe events at each conference on the theme ‘Trust and Openness in the NHS: From Paternalism to Partnership’. The fringes explored improving communication with service users and developing a culture of openness.
At fringes chaired by journalists from
The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph and Health Service Journal, senior spokespeople from HPC, the Medical Protection Society (MPS) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) led discussions. Simon Burns MP, Minister for Health, Mary Creagh MP, Shadow Minister for Health and John Pugh MP, Chair of the Liberal Democrat Health and Social Policy Group contributed at each of the fringes.
Each session opened with the reading of an example of a constituent’s letter to their local Member of Parliament which outlined a series of complaints against health professionals. The HPC, MPS and RCM each set out their organisation values
and positions about how complaints against health professionals are best dealt with and how they could be minimised through more effective communication.
HPC will also be attending devolved party conferences in Scotland and Wales.
HPC launches consultation on proposals for post-registration qualifications The Health Professions Council (HPC) has launched a consultation on the criteria that it uses to decide whether to annotate a post-registration qualification on its Register. The consultation also seeks views on whether or not the HPC should consider annotating qualifications in neuropsychology and podiatric surgery.
The HPC is proposing some criteria which it will use to decide whether a post-registration qualification is annotated on its Register. Post- registration qualifications are those which individuals undertake once they are registered with us. They often permit registrants to extend their scope of practice into areas not covered by their initial pre-registration training. The criteria have been based on discussions with stakeholders and analysis of our existing processes.
The purpose of the criteria is to ensure that decisions about whether a post-registration qualification is annotated on the HPC Register are made consistently and to provide a clear rationale for the decision. The HPC is proposing five draft criteria. A qualification would be annotated on the Register where:
• There is a clear risk to the public if the Register is not annotated
• The risk could be mitigated through annotation of the Register
• The post-registration qualification is necessary in order to carry out a particular function or role safely and effectively
• There is a link between the qualification in question and a particular function or professional title which could be defined and protected by the HPC
• The post-registration qualification could be accessed by statutorily regulated individuals.
Michael Guthrie, Director of Policy and
Standards said: “We are looking forward to listening to stakeholder opinions on the consultation proposals for post-registration qualifications. We are also particularly keen to hear views on whether to annotate qualifications in neuropsychology and podiatric surgery on our Register.”
The HPC approve education programmes that
lead directly to an individual’s eligibility to register and gain access to the relevant protected titles for their profession. The only post-registration programmes the HPC currently approve are those related to the entitlements to supply, administer or prescribe medicines and annotate the HPC Register to indicate where a registrant has undertaken additional training around medicines and has obtained entitlements as above. This is a legislative requirement under the Prescriptions Only Medicines (human use) Order 1997.
The consultation commenced on 1st November 2010 and will run until 1st February 2011.
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26 | Complete Nutrition Vol10 No.6 December/January 2010
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