Compulsory Professional Development
One of the principal functions of the Osteopthic Council is to protect the health and safety of members of the public by ensuring that all osteopaths are competent and fit to practise osteopathy. It does this primarily by:
- Ensuring that osteopaths entering the profession are qualified, fit and competent to practise osteopathy (according to the standards laid down in the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003), and
- Establishing what a reasonable standard of clinical conduct, ethical conduct, and cultural conduct is, and establishing whether or not each osteopath meets, and then maintains those standards, and
- Ensuring that educative and/or disciplinary processes exist for osteopaths who do not meet the established standards of conduct.
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