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Statutory Regulation Of Clinical Physiologists

EDM number 1352 in 2010-12, proposed by Yvonne Fovargue on 26/01/2011.
Categorised under the topic of Health services.

That this House welcomes the valuable contribution that clinical physiologists make to patient care in the NHS;notes their importance in developing and delivering a wide range of sensitive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures directly to patients in the disciplines of audiology, cardiology, gastro intestinal physiology, neurophysiology and respiratory physiology; further notes with concern that despite the Health Professions Council's recommendation in 2004 that clinical physiologists should be statutorily regulated and this advice being accepted by the Department of Health in 2005, statutory regulation has not yet been put in place; recognises the value of the current voluntary register which has been compiled and administered by the Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists; understands the Government's direction of travel that voluntary regulation is the preferred way forward for most new healthcare professions, but believes that because of the potentially highly invasive nature of clinical physiologists' activities, voluntary registration does not provide patients with enough protection against those who are unfit to practice; regrets that some of the delay appears to have been caused by the Department's otherwise worthwhile plans to better integrate the wider healthcare science workforce through Modernising Scientific Careers; and calls on the Government to publish a clear timetable for a draft section 60 Order which will take forward statutory regulation as soon as possible to minimise the ongoing risks to patient safety.

This motion has been signed by a total of 21 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Yvonne Fovargue26/01/2011MakerfieldLabourProposed
John McDonnell27/01/2011Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn27/01/2011Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Tony Lloyd31/01/2011Manchester CentralLabourSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins31/01/2011Luton NorthLabourSeconded
Jim Dobbin31/01/2011Heywood and MiddletonLabourSeconded
Alan Meale31/01/2011MansfieldLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley31/01/2011Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Marsha Singh01/02/2011Bradford WestLabourSigned
Martin Caton01/02/2011GowerLabourSigned
David Crausby10/02/2011Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Rosie Cooper17/02/2011West LancashireLabourSigned
David Blunkett15/03/2011Sheffield, Brightside and HillsboroughLabourSigned
Grahame Morris04/04/2011EasingtonLabourSigned
Jenny Chapman26/04/2011DarlingtonLabourSigned
Valerie Vaz15/06/2011Walsall SouthLabourSigned
Mary Glindon20/06/2011North TynesideLabourSigned
Mike Wood27/06/2011Batley and SpenLabourSigned
Katy Clark06/07/2011North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Kate Hoey10/10/2011VauxhallLabourSigned
David Simpson21/11/2011Upper BannDUPSigned

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