Effective communication and shared decision-making are the foundations of a good therapeutic relationship between osteopath and patient.
During the three-year cycle, you must undertake CPD in communication and consent to keep your knowledge and skills up to date in this fundamentally important area of practice.
A wide range of learning resources exist; the following are offered as suggestions:
• Reviewing relevant sections of the Osteopathic Practice Standards and supplementary GOsC guidance, such as Obtaining consent
• Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of benefit and risk by regularly reviewing reports, research and advice available on the National Council for Osteopathic Research website
• Case-based discussion or case studies explored with colleagues
• Consent and communication resources provided by other healthcare regulators and organisations, and education providers.
• You can use these resources on your own to develop your knowledge and understanding, or use them as the basis for group discussion with colleagues.
Communication and consent / Guidance
The visiting an osteopath leaflet can be sent to patients in advance of their osteopathic treatment to help them prepare for a consultation and encourage them to think about what they want out of their treatment. It can also be …
Communication and consent / Template
The Patient Goal Planner enables patients to identify two to three goals that are important for them to achieve on a weekly basis which they currently can’t undertake because of their symptoms. For example, those goals could include picking up …
Communication and consent / Template
The Practitioner Reflection form enables osteopaths to rate their own perceptions of person-centred care using the CARE measure. In particular, the resource helps osteopaths to reflect on their shared decision-making skills and aspects of care relating to patient values, needs, …
Communication Communication and consent Consent / Template
Communication and consent
This audio recording was developed as part of a research programme with the General Dental Council and the Collaborating Centre for Values Based Practice in St Catherine’s College, Oxford to support osteopaths and patients to make decisions about care together. …
Case-based discussion Communication and consent Communication and patient partnership Objective Activity Osteopathic Practice Standards Peer observation
Dr Stacey Clift
This is the final in a series of three blogs in which Stacey shares some of the most frequent questions osteopaths are asking when completing key components of the CPD scheme.
Most osteopaths have already undertaken a communication and consent-based …
Communication and consent Keeping CPD Records Knowledge Objective Activity Peer Discussion Review
Lorraine Palmer
Case-based discussion Clinical audit Communication and consent Keeping CPD Records Objective Activity Patient feedback / Guidance
Your guide to the new CPD scheme provides a brief introduction to the new CPD scheme that launched in October 2018. It contains helpful information, useful tips and plenty of links to further resources to help and support you in …
Case-based discussion Communication and consent
Osteopath Tom Munden shares with us what he learned during his first time carrying out a case based discussion as a CPD activity
Tom Munden graduated from the British School (now the University College) of Osteopathy in 1988. At the …
Communication and consent Communication and patient partnership Professionalism Safety and quality in practice
