Issue
64 of the HCPC’s e-newsletter “In Focus”
arrived in my inbox today. Some months it is quite interesting, other months it
can be rather dull.
It
started off with an article emphasising the importance of raising concerns.
Whilst I realise just how important it is to raise concerns when they are
valid, part of me can’t help but speculate whether there is maybe a little too
much of this unnecessarily going on.
There
was talk of revised standards of conduct for students, and concern was
expressed that social workers will have their own body and no longer come under
the remit of the HCPC. There was another article about how the four UK
governments are talking about reforming the regulation of health and care
professionals.
Is
this the end for the HCPC with each profession effectively going its own way?
Time will tell. – Perhaps it isn’t as the States of Jersey have asked the HCPC
to get involved with their health care.
There
was also talk about research into fitness to practice concerns and allegations.
Apparently paramedics and social workers get proportionally too many
complaints.
And
there was a survey in which registrants were asked what we thought about the
process by which renewing registration took place. I started the survey out of
interest and (in all honesty) wished
I hadn’t as I had no real interest in the subject.
Mind
you for all that his wasn’t one of the more enthralling e-newsletters, this
certainly wasn’t one of the worst.
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