General Osteopathic Council removes Michelle Davies from its Register of osteopaths
11 July 2024
The General Osteopathic Council (GOsC), the UK regulator of osteopaths, has removed Michelle Davies, of Worcester, from the Register of osteopaths.
The GOsC’s Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) found Michelle Davies guilty of unacceptable professional conduct. The Committee also found that her criminal conviction for unlawfully describing herself as an osteopath while she was suspended from the Register was relevant to her fitness to practise.
As part of the investigation, the PCC found that Michelle Davies provided incoherent and unintelligible documents and claims to the GOsC and that these documents would likely cause concern about the registrant and whether there was an issue of public safety and/or of the reputation of the profession.
The PCC also decided that the GOsC’s inquiry of Michelle Davies after receiving these documents was reasonable and complied with its legal duty, and that she was duty bound to cooperate and respond appropriately, which she did not.
The PCC noted that Michelle Davies showed ‘no insight into the seriousness of her actions nor the consequences to the profession’.
The PCC therefore decided that it was in the public’s interest that Michelle Davies’ name be removed from the statutory Register of osteopaths, in order to uphold the professional standards of osteopathy and maintain public confidence in the profession.
Michelle Davies had 28 days to make an appeal. This period expired on 2 July 2024. No appeal was made and her name was removed from the Register of osteopaths with effect from 3 July 2024.
