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Revalidation in practice - assessing the draft scheme

6 April 2010

Independent auditor appointed to carry out an evaluation and impact assessment of our draft revalidation scheme.

As part of our work on developing a scheme of revalidation, we are keen to understand the ways in which revalidation could contribute to the continuous improvement of osteopathic practice.

To help us in this we have commissioned an independent analysis of revalidation, which will look at the costs, benefits, financial and regulatory risks, and equality impact of the draft scheme. This will also help with the preparation of a comprehensive pilot to test and evaluate the scheme, currently scheduled to take place in 2011.

This work will be funded by a grant from the Department of Health to help with the development costs of revalidation.

A team from auditors KPMG will be carrying out this work, beginning this month with a presentation to the April Council meeting.

Over the next two years the team will work with us to identify the benefits and costs of revalidation.

This will involve:

  • Communication with osteopaths to find out more about how they practise. The KPMG team is seeking a detailed understanding of osteopathic practice.
  • An assessment of the work to date on revalidation undertaken by other health regulators, to help us develop a scheme that is proportionate. We want to ensure that osteopaths are revalidated in ways similar to other health professionals, but by a scheme appropriate to the practice of osteopathy.
  • A proposal setting out the methods to be used to establish the costs and benefits of revalidation prior to the piloting of the proposed revalidation scheme, to enable a fine-tuning of the scheme.
  • A report, in due course, evaluating the revalidation pilot and identifying whether the expected outcomes were met. This report will include detailed interviews with the osteopaths who volunteered to take part in the pilots.
  • A final report comprising a full evaluation and impact assessment of the revalidation
    scheme for osteopaths.