Developing the osteopathic profession: project plans published

Developing the profession: project plans published

The Osteopathic Development Group of key osteopathy stakeholders, including the GOsC, has been working steadily over the summer of 2013 to convert the osteopathy development agenda into eight fully-fledged project plans, which can be downloaded below.

Project plans 

• Project 1: Advanced practice 
• Project 2: Career development 
• Project 3: International collaboration 
• Project 4: Leadership 
• Project 5: Mentoring 
• Project 6: PROM (Patient Reported Outcomes Measure) database development 
• Project 7: Regional support 
• Project 8: Service standards 

Project management

Coordinating these developments is Project Development Manager, Matthew Rogers. Matthew is an osteopath with experience in a variety of private and NHS settings and he worked for the GOsC as a Revalidation Pilot Assessor. He has also been a British Osteopathic Association Council member. Matthew was appointed by the British Osteopathic Association, acting as the Osteopathic Development Group Secretariat.

Background

Since statutory regulation for osteopathy was put in train over 20 years ago, there have been extensive changes in healthcare, in regulation, in the osteopathic profession, and in public attitudes and expectations of healthcare.

UK osteopathy is at a critical point in its evolution and the time is right for all those concerned with the profession to look closely at its future, review the relationships between patients, practitioners and the regulator, and look ahead at the next ten years of the profession’s development.

In the spring and summer of 2012, a series of debates took place around the country to consider the future development of the osteopathic profession. This followed the publication by the GOsC in April 2012 of a discussion document, UK osteopathy: Ten questions for the next ten years.

For further information visit http://www.osteopathy.org.uk/about/our-work/Developing-theprofession