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Life after the GCC

January 9, 2012
By Stefaan Vossen
Life after the GCC

It’s been a very busy few months since I was last able to post regularly. So I am trying to make up for my selfishness with my second post within a few days. One of the reasons I have been a bit rubbish is because of what Richard is going through. It just reminds...
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The amazing tale of holism

December 26, 2011
By Stefaan Vossen
The amazing tale of holism

The incredibly odd tale of holism. It’s quite the strange thing when day after day patients come into your office telling you: “you have such a holistic view on healthcare”. Very odd indeed. Particularly when you don’t think you do. But then you realise...
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Chiropractors falling in love with “NASA” technology and promoting the scientific method’, should read this article by a real medical doctor Robert Kornfeld

November 16, 2011
By Richard Lanigan
Chiropractors falling in love with “NASA” technology and promoting the scientific method’, should read this article by a real medical doctor Robert Kornfeld

  6 Medical Myths Even Your Doctor May Still Believe. By Dr Robert Kornfeld Huffington Post November 2011 "The more things change, the more they stay the same." This couldn’t be truer of our health care delivery system. As a practicing physician for more...
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If you did not have the courage to question Margaret Coats when she was chief executive of the GCC, now’s your chance to ask how much she got to go

October 21, 2011
By Richard Lanigan
If you did not have the courage to question Margaret Coats when she was chief executive of the GCC, now’s your chance to ask how much she got to go

I would not want anybody to miss CAM expo this weekend at Earls Court exhibition Centre. The promo for the event states “make sure you are there for the ...
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Someone should warn these poor bastards, what they are getting by hiring Margaret Coats as Registrar

August 10, 2011
By Richard Lanigan
Someone should warn these poor bastards, what they are getting by hiring Margaret Coats as Registrar

Obviously she got a glowing reference from Peter  Dixon et al as they thought she had done a great job bringing the chiropractic profession to its knees now she...
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The tutors at the Welsh Institute of Chiropractic have been ripping off their students and these are the chiropractors who are going to sort it out.

July 12, 2011
By Richard Lanigan
The tutors at the Welsh Institute of Chiropractic have been ripping off their students and these are the chiropractors who are going to sort it out.

A few months ago I got a call asking me to blog about a scandal that was unfolding at WIOC. A slush fund had been set up at Glamorgan...
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Can chiropractors learn from FIFA

June 1, 2011
By Richard Lanigan
Can chiropractors learn from FIFA

Those of you following the recent FIFA revelations may have noticed the similarities with other regulatory bodies. Peter Dixon did not do very well in the 2007 elections in...
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The flowers smell beautiful and its great to be alive.

May 19, 2011
By Richard Lanigan
The flowers smell beautiful and its great to be alive.

At about two in the afternoon, on November 21, 1920, the players of Tipperary lined up for a team photograph before the match against Dublin. At the rear three...
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Dear Margaret

April 14, 2011
By Stefaan Vossen
Dear Margaret

Dear Margaret, you will probably read this on chiropracticlive before our trusted Royal Mail has delivered this letter to you, but never mind, I would like to think the...
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The GOC tell skeptics to fuck off with their complaints. GCC send 700 to the PCC. The CHRE conclude both are doing an excellent job.

April 6, 2011
By Richard Lanigan
The GOC tell skeptics to fuck off with their complaints. GCC send 700 to the PCC. The CHRE conclude both are doing an excellent job.

The CHRE have published their annual report on the health regulatory bodies they regulate. Below are the CHRE conclusions about the General Osteopathic Council way of regulating for 2010...
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Sorry Jack of Kent I just didn’t get your April fools day joke?

April 5, 2011
By Richard Lanigan
Sorry Jack of Kent I just didn’t get your April fools day joke?

For many including myself the person who talked most sense regarding the BCA decision to sue the BCA was legal blogger Jack of Kent. He was a “master” of...
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Amit Patel’s Freedom of Information request to the CHRE.

April 5, 2011
By Richard Lanigan
Amit Patel’s Freedom of Information  request to the CHRE.

Just noticed this on the “comments” and it deserves a more prominent place. Many chiropractors think Coats demise will ring in a new dawn for chiropractic in the UK....
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Coats Retires

March 31, 2011
By Richard Lanigan
Coats Retires

How weird is that, I had just posted the blog post announcing I was passing chiropracticlive over to others and I get the message that Coats has retired, has...
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Why should anyone believe what Professor Edzard Ernst says, after he put his name to a BBC programme, he now describes as “deception”.

March 31, 2011
By Richard Lanigan
Why should anyone believe what Professor Edzard Ernst says, after he put his name to a BBC programme, he now describes as “deception”.

Simon Singh was in Kingston on Monday night speaking to the Kingston Humanist Society. As all the skeptics I have challenged refuse to debate me in public, I thought...
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The Chiropractic profession needs to get its act together and establish a consensus view of chiropractic and promote spinal joint care.

March 22, 2011
By Richard Lanigan
The Chiropractic profession needs to get its act together and establish a consensus view of chiropractic and promote spinal joint care.

MEDICAL experts have called on Canberra to shut down a university chiropractic clinic aimed at children amid claims the theories behind the practice are "no better than witchcraft" and...
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The Department of Healths White Paper suggests they may be about to tell Coats and Dixon that their General Chiropractic Council is not fit for purpose

March 20, 2011
By Richard Lanigan
The Department of Healths White Paper suggests they may be about to tell Coats and Dixon that their General Chiropractic Council is not fit for purpose

Guess which regulatory body Charges its registrants most: the GCC £1000 a year, Osteopaths charge £750 a year( £350 in the first year and £500 in year two) so...
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Allowing chiropractors in New Mexico to prescribe will be nothing more than using chiropractic as cheap labour in a state short of Medical Doctors

March 17, 2011
By Richard Lanigan
Allowing chiropractors in New Mexico to prescribe will be nothing more than using chiropractic as cheap labour in a state short of Medical Doctors

  Good discussion going on Brett Kinsler DCs blog about prescribing. Can someone please give me some figures that would suggest a majority of chiropractors or patients want prescribing...
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The complaint against Peter Dixon was not sent to the PCC and he was able to remain as chair of the General Chiropractic Council

March 15, 2011
By Richard Lanigan
The complaint against Peter Dixon was not sent to the PCC and he was able to remain as chair of the General Chiropractic Council

Margaret Coats legal interpretation of the chiropractic act is different from Osteopaths, every complaint where there is a case to answer is supposed to be sent to the Professional...
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  • Chiropractic Regulator in UK These are the people who regulate chiropractic in the UK
  • CHRE The Council for Health Care and Regulatory Excelence are the quango set up by the Department of Health to “insure” regulators are fullfilling their statutory duty. They seem to meerly rubber stamp information given to them by the regulators and would not
  • General Medical Council Regulates Medical Doctors in the UK
  • Health Professionals Council Because of the diversity of chiropractic practise, I have always believed the chiropractic profession would have been better off being regulated by thei body where the interests of individual chiropractic groups would have been less important
  • Osteopath Regulation in the UK Set up the rear before the chiropractic profession. Do not seem to have the divisions the GCC and seem to balance their statutory duty with the interests of the Osteopath profession

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