Registration Council For Clinical Physiologists
About Registration Council For Clinical Physiologists
The RCCP holds a voluntary register for Clinical Physiologists. Our key aim is to ensure the highest levels of safety for our patients.
Registration Council For Clinical Physiologists Description
Our key work strands include:
- Maintaining and publishing a publicly accessible register of properly qualified members of the professions
- Working in partnership with professional bodies to promote the highest standards of professionalism
- Approving high standards of education and training and continuing professional development
- Campaigning for the introduction of statutory regulation of clinical physiologists to ensure that nobody can opt out of the patient safety measures that we provide
- Investigating complaints and taking appropriate action.
If you've been treated by a clinical physiologist and have any concerns about the way your treatment has gone, please get in touch with us. We can help you.
Reviews
A huge thank you to RCCP chair Amanda Casey who recently stepped down from her role - but she won't be severing all ties with us. Trefor Watts has been appointed as Chair and Catherine Ross as Vice Chair
Jobs protection for NHS staff who blow whistle over unsafe hospitals http://www.thetimes.co.uk/…/jobs-protec tion-for-nhs-staff-w…
GPs handed 'slaps on the wrist' in private hearings to spare them 'anxiety' of appearing in public via Daily Mail - what's the point of regulation if patients don't come first? Patient safety MUST become a priority.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/…/Blundering -GPs-handed-slaps-wr…
Ministers are considering merging the GMC and Nursing & Midwifery Council. Great if it cuts red tape for patients and their families, but what about unregulated professionals. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/…/one-watchdo g-for-doctors-and-nu…
"Staff should know they can raise even minor safety concerns without risking their career, and patients, especially those lethally let down, must know mistakes will be examined in the most open manner and lessons learnt to stop others suffering similar pain." Crucial words by Ian Birrell via The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/…/nhs-must-c ut-cancer-cover-ups…/
We're at the ARTP Annual Conference in Belfast today and tomorrow - make sure you stop by and say hello!
The Health Service Journal has reported that the DH is considering using prohibition orders against unregulated staff who are found to present a risk to patient safety https://www.hsj.co.uk/…/unregulated-sta ff-…/7014709.article… - we're looking for your thoughts on this development so do please get in touch.
From the entire RCCP team, we wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!
We support only the highest standards of education and training. For more information and details on how to become a member of the RCCP view our full brochure here https://www.rccp.co.uk/documents/RCCP_Bro chure.pdf
And please spread the word!
We're delighted to announce that we will be hosting an online ‘Dedicated Hour’, once every couple of months, accompanied by the #ClinPhys hashtag, which will serve purely as a platform for all our registrants to communicate and network online. Stay tuned for updates and announcements on when the first Hour will be taking place - and please do share this amongst your friends and colleagues!
Clinical Physiologist Catherine Ross was part of a fantastic project in partnership with the Royal Institution of Great Britain and Girlguiding to encourage children, and particularly young girls, to get more involved with science - http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/…/sci ence-is-not-just-abo…
It's a wonderful initiative to inspire young people - if you want to know more or get involved/become a STEM ambassador, let us know!
Please don't forget that you can send us examples of your work, particularly if you’ve perhaps recently won any awards, had a successful meeting or a promotion, been involved in a local charitable cause, or had particularly great feedback from a patient - we want to promote you and to promote our profession, so let us know and we can spread the word!
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The TUC has warned that NHS cuts are putting #patientsafety at risk http://bit.ly/2fFgLQ2 - but one crucial overlooked way this can be improved is through statutory regulation.
If you know any colleagues or current students who are looking for more information about how to join us, and who would like to get in touch about an application, please do direct them to our brand new Q&A section on the website which should hopefully make the process much simpler: https://www.rccp.co.uk/…/The-Process-of -Application-to-the-…