Clause 23 - the council for the regulation of health care professionals
NHS Reform and Health Care Professions Bill
11:00 am
Dr Richard Taylor (Wyre Forest, Independent)
I have two questions for the Minister, the first of which concerns health visitors. The national body and many local health visitors have expressed distress about the fact that their title is missing from the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Can the Minister advise me on how to convince health visitors that they are not being neglected and cut out? The second point concern chiropodists in the independent sector, who carry out well in excess of 50 per cent. of routine basic foot care. Given that only a single, state-registered representative will be on the council, what measures will be put in place to protect those chiropodists who provide a vital role in the independent sector?