Two weeks left to stop the Department of Health making a fool of itself. Email your response to tne Pittilo consultation to this email address HRDListening@dh.gsi.gov.uk I’ve had permission to post a submission that has been sent to the Pittilo consultation. The whole document can be downloaded here. I have removed the name of the [...]
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An excellent submission to the consultation on statutory regulation of alternative medicine (Pittilo report)
October 13th, 2009 · 9 Comments
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Consultation opens on Pittilo report: help to stop Department of Health making fool of itself
August 4th, 2009 · 34 Comments
Jump to follow-up The much-delayed public consultation on the Pittilo report has just opened. It is very important that as many people as possible respond to it. It’s easy to say that the consultation is sham. It will be if it is left only to acupuncturists and Chinese medicine people to respond to it. Please [...]
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Health Professions Council ignores its own rules: the result is nonsense
March 24th, 2009 · 24 Comments
The Health Professions Council (HPC) is yet another regulatory quango. The HPC’s strapline is “Working with health professionals to protect the public” At present the HPC regulates; Arts therapists, biomedical scientists, chiropodists/podiatrists, clinical scientists, dietitians, occupational therapists, operating department practitioners, orthoptists, paramedics, physiotherapists, prosthetists/orthotists, radiographers and speech & language therapists. These are thirteen very respectable [...]
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