Objective Activity Patient feedback / Template
Patient Feedback form
This template enables osteopaths to explores patients views about their experience of the osteopathic appointment.
Resources
Clinical audit Objective Activity / Guidance
NCOR Introduction to Clinical Audit for Practising Osteopaths
The National Council for Osteopathic Research has developed a introductory handbook for osteopaths on clinical audit.
Clinical audit Objective Activity / Guidance
What is clinical audit?
Clinical audit can help you to look at your practice in a different way, learn new things and enhance your practice as a result of new knowledge.
Guidance
Six-step guide to planning your CPD
Our six step guide will support your CPD progress.
Read the attached pdf resource to learn more information regarding our six phases of development:
Stage 1: Identify Stage 2: Plan Stage 3: Select Stage 4: Act Stage 5: Reflect Stage …
Communication and consent / Guidance
Communication scenarios – General Medical Council
The General Medical Council has a range of practice scenarios on their website to aid with the management of cases which might be challenging.
Communication and consent / Guidance
Communicating benefit and risk – National Council for Osteopathic Research
NCOR has a particularly helpful site which contains an extensive range of resources to support osteopaths, including some specific information on communicating risks and benefits.
Communication and consent / Guidance
Communicating benefit and risk – General Medical Council
The General Medical Council guidance on consent is extensive, and broken down on their website into different sections, including one on explaining side effects, complications and other risks and an overview of consent and the resources available to provide support in this respect.
Communicating benefit and risk Communication and consent / Guidance / Videos
Communicating benefit and risk
Steven Vogel presents findings of the GOsC funded study ‘Clinical risks osteopathy and management’ (CROaM) and Pippa Bark (a research fellow with a background in psychology) who presents some useful tips about explaining risk to patients from a patient perspective).
Objective Activity / Guidance
Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)
Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) facilitate anonymous feedback from patients enabling osteopaths to check how patients respond to osteopathic treatment.
Objective Activity Patient feedback / Guidance
About the CARE measure
The CARE Measure is a quick (only 10 questions), clear and easy to complete patient-completed questionnaire. It measures empathy in the context of the therapeutic relationship during a one-on-one consultation between a clinician and a patient.