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The Business Plan for 2021-22 details activity to be undertaken over the coming year towards achieving the GOsC’s four Strategic Goals and was approved by GOsC’s Council at its recent meeting

The GOsC’s Council met for the first time this year and considered GOsC’s activities across the coming year and beyond.

We have recently seen an increase in the number of concerns raised with us about osteopaths not using, or not implementing public health guidance, around personal protective equipment (PPE) as part of the process of infection control. This raises concerns about risks to patients and the wider public due to the spread of this highly infectious disease.

We have written to Public Health England (PHE) and to all four Chief Allied Health Professions Officers across the UK to notify them of the following statement we have issued today.

The Chief Executives of the statutory health and care regulators have published a joint statement to update their registrants on COVID-19.

Priorities for the COVID-19 vaccination programme include healthcare workers working as independent providers, including in private practice.

New guidance has been published by the Government, following the Prime Minister’s announcement yesterday of a further national lockdown in England

GOsC has published its latest fitness to practise report for 2019-20.

Following approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine last week by the Medicines and Healthcare Products (MHRA), the vaccine programme is starting to be rolled out in the UK. This will be the largest immunisation programme in history.

The GOsC is preparing a new approach to communications and engagement that will help us to promote patient safety, and support osteopaths to deliver high quality care