Communication and consent

Communicating risk – Northern Ireland Osteopaths

Using videos on the GOsC’s Youtube channel featuring osteopath Steve Vogel and clinical psychologist Pippa Bark, the group discussed the challenges of communicating risk and benefit to patients.

Summary

The Northern Ireland osteopaths CPD Group ran a CPD session where …

Communication and consent / Guidance

Using patient testimonials

Osteopaths, like other healthcare professionals, often make use of patient testimonials in their marketing literature and on their websites. Sometimes, osteopaths with high profile patients such as performers or athletes, are featured in articles about their work with such patients. …

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“There are no set scripts and no set patients”

10th November 2017

Steven Bettles, GOsC Policy Manager, explains why effective communication with patients about risks is a clinical decision, rather than just a regulatory requirement.

There is a perception amongst some osteopaths that effective communication with patients is a regulatory requirement imposed …

Communication and consent Consent / Guidance

Consent guidance – Royal College of Surgeons

The Royal College of Surgeons has developed guidance on consent that sets out the principles for working with patients through a process of supported decision-making, and a series of podcasts that illustrate those principles in practice.

Communication and consent Consent

The law on consent – what’s new?

Deborah Smith

24th January 2017

Deborah Smith, osteopath and GOsC Council member, gives her take on developments …

The focus of the law on consent changed in 2015 as a result of a landmark legal decision.

The change to consent law is consistent with the …

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Communication – GOsC resources

We have produced some resources aimed at exploring patients’ expectations of osteopathic care, and the extent to which these were being met. Elements of communication underpin many of these expectations, which can be seen in both the full report and the summary version.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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