BlankTony you wrote:

>Let's see if I got the facts:
>Registered Podiatrist" replaces the terminology State Registered
Chiropodist/Podiatrist.
No, Podiatrist and Chiropodist replace the terminology registered is not
part of it,

>"Foot Health Practitioner" will now be the terminology used by the
previously known Non-State Registered Chiropodist/Podiatrist.
No, only those that don't want to register, or those that have been
rejected. They have until July 2005 to put in their applications.

>Foot Health Practitioner course is still a correspondence course.
Yes.

>SCP is welcoming membership from the Foot Health Practitioner.
No, they are only admitting registered chiropodists/podiatrists regardless
of their level of training.

>I do agree that some Shiropodists are more experienced than some
Podiatrists - and this is partly due to individual job satisfaction; but
also due to the >fact that the Association for the Non-State Registered run
business courses for their members - SCP DOES NOT!!!!
The Soc does actually run business courses but not at undergraduate level, I
think they should. I am not so sure that SMAE or the Institute do either
otherwise you would see then charging such low fee's.

>Some health authorities are accepting foot health practitioners for the
NHS.
I have no idea about  this

>Joe public are not aware of the changes.
Correct, apart from the most ex nhs or medical "lay" people on the HPC

>What a shamble - what a mockery of the 3-4 year degree leading to State
Registration!!! This makes it harder for those colleagues in Private
Practice to >assure their patients that their course of training was far
superior to the correspondence courses.
I am afraid that they cannot as in the eye's of the HPC as long as you can
fill in a form you are a safe, effective podiatrist regardless of how you
were trained.

>I always take pride in telling my patients that they must see a State
Registered Chiropodist/Podiatrist - but what am I supposed to say now -  "We
are all in one big HAPPY family"!!!! I don't think so!!!
I'm sorry but it's happened now the time to fight it was 2 years ago, we
choose not to. I now quite frankly wouldn't trust the Society to do the best
for the profession ever again, not that it has ever in the past. I am quite
happy to plod along, presenting the odd motion to AGM to see what backward
views the council and membership can come up with. It never fails to
reaffirm my position that the Society will continue to display the 'high
powered inertia' it has for as long as I have been a member and from what I
gather is along as they have existed.

Don't worry to much about it, be the best you can be sod the rest.

Akbal

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