Letter the Associations sent the General Chiropractic Council four months ago expressing no confidence in the regulator (a redacted version has been made public by CHRE under FOI)
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“Scientist”, Stephen Hughes has “specialist” knowledge in chiropractic care of children. It is an absolute disgrace that he has been admonished by the General Chiropractic Council.
When I ran for a place on the General Chiropractic Council I was nominated by 5 chiropractors who had been the subject of vexatious complaints which had been thrown out by the GCC. I warned it could be you. While…
Latest from the British Chiropractic Association’s president Richard Brown (The guy who thought it was a good idea to sue Simon Singh). No icebergs sail on, full speed ahead.
Oh Dear! The bit I like best is in the last paragraph I believe the BCA President is an avid reader of this blog and advises “dont believe all you read. In recent months Ive seen comments made about the…
Why is the osteopathic profession growing at a much faster rate than the chiropractic profession in the UK? Are they just nicer people?
There are twice as many Osteopeaths in the UK as chiropractors when only five years ago it was a third, there are possibly ten times more chiropractors practicing around the world than Osteopaths. When I was on the GCC council…
According to BCA president Richard Brown the General Chiropractic Council is a “cracking success”, Zeno is still not convinced
At the recent European Chiropractic Union conference in London BCA president Richard Brown outlined why the UK regulatory model is a “cracking success”, I wonder if the pun got a laugh or were there chiropractors present who knew the reality…
British Chiropractic Association asks the General Chiropractic Council to seek prescribing rights for its members
A ballot of BCA members has resulted in 78% of the votes cast (which was not that many), being in favour of asking the GCC to approach the Medicines Healthcare Regulatory Authority to set in motion a proposal to secure…
These are my comments on the article professor Edzard Ernst had published in the New Scientist last summer about chiropractic.
My comments on this article are in red. What you should know about chiropractic ? 29 May 2009 by Edzard Ernst in New Scientist 29th of May Just what is chiropractic, and do the claims of chiropractors stand up to…
Would Herbert Ross Reaver have remained on the register of the General Chiropractic Council
Chiropractic has a rich history of activists who were prepared to go to jail for the chiropractic profession.When the iron doors of the Scott County Jail shut on D.D. Palmer in the spring of 1906 he was destined to be…
Margaret Coats may have chiropractors attending the ECU conference in London arrested
The General Chiropractic Council (GCC), the chiropractic regulator in the UK have hired Private investigators to try and find evidence to present to the police and have me arrested for practising chiropractic without a “medipractor” licence from Margaret Coats…
How a few motivated "Geeks" defeated an apathetic profession
Having created this mess by not consulting the profession BCA leaders will put their head in the sand hoping the problem will go away. I suspect this is just the beginning rather than the end. Reading articles like Nick Cohen’s…