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.
The GOsC’s Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) has found Christopher Willis, of Watford, Hertfordshire, guilty of unacceptable professional conduct and decided that the appropriate sanction would be to remove his name from the Register of osteopaths.
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
The GOsC’s Council, recognising the impact the pandemic has had on osteopaths, has agreed to freeze annual registration fees.