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GRCCT Press Release
GRCCT Comment on launch of CnHc Register for Massage and Nutritional Therapists
General Issue, January 22, 2009
The General Regulatory Council for Complementary Therapies was established in 2007 as the first and only profession supported Regulator for Complementary Therapies in the United Kingdom. We are greatly saddened by the actions of the company now calling itself the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council.
This CnHc is a small group consisting mostly of nurses, dentists, pharmacologists and a physiotherapist with no voting rights for Complementary Therapy expertise on its various regulatory councils and functional committees. This exclusion of voting professional expertise is unique to the CnHc. No other regulator in the UK is structured in this way. To date this group together with its precursors has spent almost £3m of public money in the formation of a regulatory process considered unfit for purpose by the vast majority of practitioners.
Whilst accepting that this new body is only offering registration to some Massage Therapists and a percentage of the Nutritional Therapy sector is has, at a single stroke, confused the whole issue of regulating Complementary and Alternative Medicine and devalued the concept in the eyes of public and professions alike.
Since 2007 the public have needed to check only the single National Register administered by the GRCCT to establish if their chosen practitioner in the disciplines of Aromatherapy, Energy Therapies, Massage, Reflexology, and Reiki had committed to the industry voluntary regulator. Should this new body succeed in recruiting the 10,000 practitioners it requires to fund the innumerate positions in its complex management structure the public will need to check both registers for their Massage Therapist.
Regrettably, when the 15 seconds of fame has expired and
the funding has again run out it is not the unelected few at the
CnHc who will
be tasked with rebuilding the reputation of Complementary Medicine.
Notes
The GRCCT is a self-funding regulatory body established in 2007.
The GRCCT lists 30 Professional Associations and Organisations across 6 major therapy disciplines from which applications for Admissions to the National Register may be accepted. The CnHc lists 2 organisations from 2 therapies.
The GRCCT currently regulates an industry sector of some 60,000 practitioners.
The CnHc cannot STOP practitioners from conducting their business.
GRCCT Contact details
Registration Team: 0870 314 4031
Media Contact: Martin McClinton/BJ Tanner: 0701 701 4444
The General Regulatory Council For Complementary Therapies
Box 437, Office 6
Slington House
Rankine Road
Basingstoke
RG24 8PH
Tel: 0870 3144031
Fax: 0870 8793528
www.grcct.org
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See also
Activities: VSR: The Reiki Council
Activities: Education: National Occupational Standards (NOS).
