INFORMATION

The Registration Disciplines

The Clinical Physiology Disciplines represented on the RCCP are:-

Your own Discipline may have specific advice on Voluntary Registration with the RCCP. Please check the appropriate website.

Council Members and Representatives

Click this link to view the List of Council Members and the Representatives for each Clinical Physiology Discipline.

Example Registration Form

Click this link to view the Example Form published by the RCCP to give you an idea of the sort of things you should be including. To download this word document to your own disc drive right-click the link and use 'Save Target As...'
( NB do not use this document to submit your own application - the Electronic versions of the Registration Form are available in the Applications section of this website.)

The Health Professions Council

The HPC has been set up to safeguard the health and well-being of patients using the services of the professions it regulates and to ensure that the public has access to and are treated by health professionals who are qualified and competent.
Click this link to visit the HPC Website to find out more.

The Federation for Healthcare Science

The Federation was formed in 2002 as an overarching body for the professional organisations representing healthcare scientists.  The Federation will provide a collective voice for science in the health service to the government, other health care professionals and to members of the public.

The forty plus professions, groups and disciplines within healthcare science are grouped into three main sections, based primarily on the underlying branch of science from which they originate. Physiological Science if one of the three branches.

For more information on FHCS - See the website at www.fedhcs.net 

Accredited Degrees

A degree bearing the name of Clinical Physiology is not necessarily the true vocational degree that RCCP will accredit.  It is advisable before starting trainees on a course to check the status of that course.  Regular updates of accredited centres will be made available to you all through your professional bodies and this website.  

See Accredited Provider List (on Education page).
 

Department of Health Consultation Document - March 2004

Enhancing Public Protection: Proposals for the Statutory Regulation of Healthcare Support Staff in England and Wales - March 2004 (View this document)

The consultation document proposes to extend the current system of regulation of healthcare professionals to include Healthcare Support Staff. The paper seeks views on the inclusion of Healthcare Support Staff in statutory regulation.

The Department of Health is requesting feedback on this document.
Please also copy any comments to the RCCP via RCCP Admin.

(See also resulting documents below - published 14 July 2006)

The Regulation of the Non-Medical Healthcare Professions: A review by the Department of Health - 14 July 2006

This document flows from the work of a review of non-medical professional regulation, which was set up in March 2005 by the then Secretary of State, John Reid. It deals with the regulation of health care professionals other than doctors.

View the report here: The Regulation of the Non-Medical Healthcare Professions: A review by the Department of Health

Healthcare professional regulation: Public consultation on proposals for change - 14 July 2006

Launch date:  14 July 2006   Closing date: 10 November 2006

This consultation paper seeks views on the proposals put forward by the Chief Medical Officer in Good doctors, safer patients, and upon the options outlined in the parallel review of non-medical regulation.

Introduction

Following the publication of The Shipman Inquiry: fifth report in December 2004, which was highly critical of the General Medical Council and the broader arrangements for medical regulation, Lord Warner commissioned a review of medical regulation. Shortly thereafter, the Department of Health elected to conduct a parallel review of the arrangements in place for the regulation of the other clinical professions in order to provide consistency of approach and in recognition of the blurring of traditional job roles in healthcare.

The review of medical regulation was conducted by Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer for England. His report, Good doctors, safer patients, along with the parallel departmental review of non-medical regulation, focuses upon the protection of the interests and safety of patients. 

Among the key themes raised in the two reports are: changes to the governance and accountability of the professional regulators; the importance of operationalised standards against which to regulate; the appropriate legal standard of proof; the introduction of an independent adjudicator; a spectrum of revalidation across all clinical professions; and, devolution of some regulatory powers to the local level.  

The Department of Health now invites views and comments on the proposals put forward by the Chief Medical Officer in Good doctors, safer patients, and upon the options outlined in the parallel review of non-medical regulation.

Although the Secretary of State for Health is consulting on a UK-wide basis, you may wish to copy comments to the health departments of the devolved administrations which have been asked to provide advice and comments to the Secretary of State to the same timescale.

View the consultation document by clicking here

The Universal Ethical Code for Scientists

Following conversations at a Carnegie meeting (a regular informal meeting of science ministers and advisers from G8 countries) in 2004, Sir David King, the government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, convened a small working group to help him to consider the issues around developing a universal ethical code of conduct for scientists. The group agreed that it would be most useful to develop a set of guidelines. See Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Website.