Statutory regulation - President's Update - 26 March 2009 (zawiera odniesienie do Polish Psychologists' Club!)
The legislation proposes nine protected adjectival titles (Clinical Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist, Educational Psychologist, Forensic Psychologist, Health Psychologist, Occupational Psychologist, Sport and Exercise Psychologist) and two generic titles (Practitioner Psychologist and Registered Psychologist). This means that you would need to be registered with the HPC to practise under one of these
titles.
titles.
Any Chartered Psychologist who does NOT have a Society adjectival title, and who wants to practise under the protected titles, should apply for full membership of the appropriate Division by 20 May 2009.
Only details of Chartered Psychologists with an adjectival title and a
current practising certificate will be automatically sent to the HPC.
current practising certificate will be automatically sent to the HPC.
Statutory regulation - President's Update - 12 November 2008
We have just been informed by the Department of Health (DH) that they expect to table the necessary legislation, the section 60 Order, in both the UK and Scottish Parliaments after the Christmas recess. Westminster returns on Monday 12 January 2009. The DH are still working to an expected implementation date of 1 July 2009.
Dr Liz Campbell
President
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Dear Colleagues,
The latest Statutory Regulation President’s Update, 6 March 2009 below will be loaded onto our web site later today.
Stephen White
Director of Communications
Statutory Regulation - President's Update 6 March 09
Dear Colleagues,
The legislation to enable psychologists to be taken into statutory regulation has now been tabled in both Westminster and Holyrood.
From our initial reading of the Statutory Instrument (Section 60 Order) Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments & Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009 there are no surprises in that it is very similar to earlier drafts that the Society has seen and commented on.
The legislation has to go through due process. It will be scrutinised by the appropriate committees in both London and Edinburgh, they will report to their respective parliaments, and then there has to be a vote in both the Commons and Lords in Westminster, and in the Scottish Parliament.
In January I wrote a letter to those Committees pointing out our policy position that by excluding a significant number of Chartered Psychologists (those without an adjectival title) then the public will not be as fully protected as they should be, and deserve to be. We believe that this is a failing in the legislation and hope that the Committees scrutinising the Statutory Instrument will agree.
Both the Department of Health (DH) and the Health Professions Council (HPC) have to work on the basis that the legislation will be passed, and they have informed us that they are still working on 1 July 2009 as the date that the register will open. It is therefore imperative that any Chartered Psychologist, who does not currently have a Society adjectival title and who wants to practise under the protected titles, applies for full membership of the appropriate Society Division by the deadline of 20 May 2009. However, there can be no guarantee that all applicants will be accepted, as each case will be considered against the appropriate and current membership criteria. This is because only the details of Chartered Psychologists with an adjectival title and a current practicing certificate will be automatically sent to the HPC. The actual wording of the legislation states in reference to those who will be eligible to be entered on the HPC Register:
[the] “BPS register” means the aggregate of the entries in the register maintained by the BPS that relate to holders of practising certificates who are or have been full members of one or more of the divisions of the BPS in respect of the following branches of psychology: clinical psychology; counselling psychology; educational psychology; forensic psychology; health psychology; occupational psychology; and sport and exercise psychology”.
Those not in that position and who wish to continue to practise will have to apply to the HPC via their grandparenting routes, details of which can be found on the HPC website, www.hpc-uk.org.
Now that the legislation has been tabled we are able and will bring you further guidance and information about what it means to those who will potentially need to be on the HPC register – so, please keep a close watch on the our web site.
I will bring you further news as it becomes available.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Liz Campbell
President.
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