AUTOCLAVE SERVICE DAY
THURSDAY 9th FEBRUARY 2012
The autoclave engineer will be at the College of Foot Health Practitioners to calibrate, service and certify your autoclaves.
Bring your autoclave to the College before 10am on the day (or before) and collect them back at the end of the day (or next day).
Defective seals and small faults can usually be fixed on the day
Major faults may necessitate your machine being taken in to the workshop for repair.
Tel: 0121 559 0180 to book your autoclave in...
The Alliance offers membership to private sector practitioners, be they FHPs, Podiatrists, Chiropractors, Osteopaths, Physiotherapists, Sports Therapists, Reflexologists, etc. All members benefit from a comprehensive package of practitioner protection, a varied range of cpd opportunities, practice promotion, development and support (and see Alliance Insurance, above - competitive rates).
To make enquiries or learn more please contact Alliance Head Office: 7 Wynnstay Road,
Colwyn Bay,
Conwy, N Wales
LL29 8NB Tel: 01492 534333
-'because we are all practitioners'
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MASTER-CLASSES are held at the College of Foot Health Practitioners
These Workshops are for those seeking CPD directly relevant to practice. They are open to students and practitioners of any background. Beginning at 10.00am or 2.00pm, they last 3 hours.
1. ASSESSMENT OF THE FOOT - Includes foot examination, vascular and neurological examination. Workshop employing monofilament, tuning fork, patella hammer, Doppler and examination protocols...
2. FOOT PROTECTION STRATEGIES - Includes low Dye taping for immediate relief of plantar fasciitis, silicone orthodigita, digital dressings, and how to protect the foot within the shoe.
3. VERRUCA TREATMENTS - HPV is examined in depth and use of aerosol cryogens and other verruca elimination strategies are included.
4. ONYCHOCRYPTOSIS - Conservative management of the ingrowing toenail.
5. INSOLE-MAKING WORKSHOP - an all-day 'hands-on' practical in simple insole manufacture
for further details, dates, fees or to enrol: contact the College of Foot Health Practitioners Tel. 0121 559 0180
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Note Carefully!
To imply that you are a chiropodist or podiatrist is illegal unless you are an HPC registrant and you risk prosecution for improper use of these titles. This is also interpreted as extending to use of related words such as chiropody and podiatry and derivitive words such as podiatric and chiropodial.
The Alliance advises FHP members to avoid using these terms at all, in any context, and advises use of the term Foot Health Practitioner in the case of practitioners involved in the delivery of foot health and foot care. When answering the telephone you are advised to answer the question: "is that the chiropodist"? with either your name, or with a trading name. For instance: 'It's Andrew at Prime Feet' or 'It's The Foot Spa - Sally speaking' or 'I'm Terry, the practitioner, how can I help'? Practice this form of words and use it every time you go to the 'phone. In response to 'do you do chiropody'? or 'are you a chiropodist'? the answer must be something like 'No, I'm a foot health practitioner. I take care of your feet and leave you comfortable'. Do not simply respond with a direct 'yes' to these sort of questions!
Websites must also be checked closely and revised where necessary. Take care that you do not display the Alliance logo with the banner which reads 'The Alliance of Chiropody and Podiatry Practitioners' if you are an FHP. The correct logo for FHPs has a banner which reads 'The Alliance of Private Sector Practitioners'. Displaying the wrong logo is asking for trouble. The correct logo is available from the Alliance office.
Practitioners must be careful when placing advertisements that they are not placed under chiropody and podiatry classifications. Yellow Pages has a section Foot Health, and it is here that advertisements must be placed. In other publications there will be a Health and Fitness category or similar. If doubtful, seek advice. The Alliance can be contacted on 01492 534333 or 07703 576553.
This is not simply a disclaimer for the protection of our own backs. This is a warning from a responsible professional body concerned for the professional well-being of all of its members.....
CHECK YOUR WEBSITES, LITERATURE AND ADVERTISEMENTS
THE RULES ARE PLAIN AND HAVE BEEN EXPLAINED IN GREAT DETAIL!!
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CHAPTER AND VERSE
Some members are reporting that they are losing business due to accusations being made that they are 'not qualified' or 'not registered'. The Health Bill 1999 is quite specific, and you are fully entitled to pursue practice. If this happens to you the Alliance needs to know who, how and when so that we can take up the case on your behalf. Be assured - no Alliance member needs to suffer this sort of harassment - but the Alliance's solicitors must have details in order to act.
The Alliance can report success in three cases to date. Other cases are ongoing and our solicitors continue to follow their instructions. The HPC and Society of C&P have been fully informed in each case.
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The Alliance is concerned with the positive development of private practice and the progress of individual practitioner members
Regulated or independent, all practitioners have the same need of advice, protection, networking and development
Members already recognise that the Alliance works continually and tirelessly to these ends
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