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GOVERNMENT CONSULTATION ON REGULATING COMPLEMENTARY PRACTITIONERS IN THE UK
GOVERNMENT CONSULTATION ON REGULATING COMPLEMENTARY PRACTITIONERS IN THE UK
The four health departments in the UK have jointly launched a consultation seeking respondents’ views on whether, and if so how, to regulate acupuncturists, herbal medicine practitioners and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners. It focuses on the purpose of regulation – public protection - explains the difference between professional regulation (whether statutory or voluntary) and system regulation, and explores the links between the work of the DH Steering Group on the statutory regulation of acupuncture, herbal medicine and TCM and the Regulation White Paper Working Group on Extending Professional Regulation.This referral may be from your GP doctor in the surgery private or NHS.
Have your say!
"A joint consultation on the Report to Ministers from the DH Steering Group on the Statutory Regulation of Practitioners of Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Other Traditional Medicine Systems Practised in the UK"
www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Liveconsultations/DH_103567
Please take a few minutes to give your feedback on this consultation, and say what you think about the proposals
The responses will be analysed for the UK as a whole, as well as by country, to help Ministers make a decision about the best way of ensuring an appropriate level of protection for the public when accessing treatment from practitioners of acupuncture, herbal medicine and traditional Chinese medicine.
At present in the UK there is no statutory regulation of practitioners of these complementary treatments. Once the responses have been considered a decision will be made on whether or not to move towards statutory regulation.
Dr Martin Harris
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