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Tags: BCA, mctimoney association, SCA, UCA
Posted in Featured Posts, Regulatory Reform: GCC 2008 to present | 3 Comments »
When I ran for a place on the General Chiropractic Council I was nominated by 5 chiropractors who had been the subject of vexatious complaints which had been thrown out by the GCC. I warned it could be you. While a member of council I warned BCA president Tony Metcalfe of the problems within...
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Tags: chre, complaints, Maragret Coats, Stephan Hughes, zeno
Posted in Featured Posts, Regulatory Reform: GCC 2008 to present | 8 Comments »
A long time ago now, I was walking up the mountains in north Italy with an uncle of mine. I was about 14 years old. I remember asking him (in Flemish): “dad is a GP and you are a chiropractor, what do you do differently?” To which he slowly replied: “We are both trying...
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Posted in Featured Posts, Professional Conduct Committee, The Skeptic Pit, UK Chiropractic Associations | 36 Comments »
Oh Dear! The bit I like best is in the last paragraph I believe the BCA President is an avid reader of this blog and advises “dont believe all you read. In recent months Ive seen comments made about the BCA that are clearly designed to damage its reputation and adversely affect the confidence...
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Tags: BCA, richard brown
Posted in Featured Posts, UK Chiropractic Associations | 60 Comments »
There are twice as many Osteopeaths in the UK as chiropractors when only five years ago it was a third, there are possibly ten times more chiropractors practicing around the world than Osteopaths. When I was on the GCC council the Registrar was refusing registration to about 50% of overseas applicants, others might say...
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Tags: asa, british chiropractic association, British Osteopathic Association, complaints
Posted in Featured Posts, Scepticism or Prejudice | 5 Comments »
At the recent European Chiropractic Union conference in London BCA president Richard Brown outlined why the UK regulatory model is a “cracking success”, I wonder if the pun got a laugh or were there chiropractors present who knew the reality of regulation for the chiropractic profession. Many will see the medicaliseation of chiropractic as...
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Tags: complaints, richard brown, skeptic barista, zeno
Posted in Featured Posts, Regulatory Reform: GCC 2008 to present | 6 Comments »
A ballot of BCA members has resulted in 78% of the votes cast (which was not that many), being in favour of asking the GCC to approach the Medicines Healthcare Regulatory Authority to set in motion a proposal to secure prescribing rights for chiropractors. This is a sad day for chiropractic, but at least...
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Tags: BCA, prescribing, richard brown
Posted in Featured Posts, UK Chiropractic Associations | 60 Comments »
My comments on this article are in red. What you should know about chiropractic ? 29 May 2009 by Edzard Ernst in New Scientist 29th of May Just what is chiropractic, and do the claims of chiropractors stand up to scrutiny? FOR many people, chiropractic appears almost mainstream. Some chiropractors even call themselves “doctor”....
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Tags: BCA, Edzard Ernst, Simon Singh, subluxation-risk
Posted in Featured Posts, Scepticism or Prejudice | 19 Comments »
Chiropractic has a rich history of activists who were prepared to go to jail for the chiropractic profession.When the iron doors of the Scott County Jail shut on D.D. Palmer in the spring of 1906 he was destined to be the first of hundreds of chiropractors who would “go to jail for chiropractic” through...
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Tags: GCC, Herbert ross Reaver, prison
Posted in Featured Posts, Regulatory Reform: GCC 2008 to present | 1 Comment »
The General Chiropractic Council (GCC), the chiropractic regulator in the UK have hired Private investigators to try and find evidence to present to the police and have me arrested for practising chiropractic without a “medipractor” licence from Margaret Coats and Peter Dixon DC the GCC management. After I left the register in January...
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Tags: ECU, jail, Margaret Coats, Private investigators
Posted in Featured Posts, Regulatory Reform: GCC 2008 to present | 19 Comments »
