Increasingly both patients and healthcare professionals are moving around the European Union to live and work. Standards of osteopathic care vary across Europe, which has brought a need for greater patient protection through proper regulation.
For this reason, the GOsC helped to create the Forum for Osteopathic Regulation in Europe (FORE). This promotes best practice and helps develop regulatory mechanisms so that patients can have confidence in osteopathic care wherever they are in Europe. The Forum’s ultimate goal is to develop throughout Europe the same high standards of education, training and practice that the GOsC maintains in the UK.
We also work with institutions and organisations elsewhere in the world to set high standards. We are working towards mutual recognition of qualifications with colleagues in Australia and New Zealand. The World Health Organisation consults us about training and safety in osteopathy and we are involved in developing basic training guidelines around the world.
The GOsC also works closely with the Alliance of UK Health Regulators on Europe (AURE), an organisation that campaigns in the interests of patients for better healthcare standards across the European Union.
