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AURICULAR ACUPUNCTURE VSR MEETING APRIL 2007
Attendees: Representing:
Maggie Dunn - Lay Chair from PFIH
Paul Blacker - EAR & CNM
Ray Gandhi - NADA UK
Pauline Ronson - S.A.Ac.
Jean Nestor - PFIH (joined the meeting for last ˝ hour)
Apologies:
Carol Bishop & - ACT (Acupuncture Consultancy Training)
Janine Short
Introductions
Maggie asked all attendees to make their introductions. Pauline agreed to take notes of the meeting. It was stated that a representative from SMART UK would not attend for reasons explained in Kim Wager’s recent email and Anne Marshall from Acu-Detox UK was still ill with the flu. Paul commented that we need to get as many Auricular Acupuncture organisations in the loop if the VSR process was going to succeed.
Registering a VSR Council
Maggie explained what is required:
1. The VSR Council should be made up of representatives of member organisations, but more importantly lay people are required who are completely independent. The PFIH insist on a lay chair, who would be elected or re-elected every year. This is paramount (PFIH will help to pay for this).
2. The VSR Council would have no interest in promoting the profession – that would be up to the member organisations to do that.
3. To enable the VSR process to happen there are several basics that are required to be set in place:
- protocol for decisions, e.g.. voting rights etc.
- clear constitution, e.g. procedural rules etc.
4. Register of practitioners needs to be up to date
- how the public can access the register, what information is put out.
5. Clear criteria around standards of education and core curriculum
- - accreditation and CPD
- - will students be put on the register of practitioners?
- - clear arrangements for grandparenting
6. Agree the title of Practitioner
7. Professional indemnity insurance
8. Have clear codes of conduct, complaints and disciplinary procedures
9 Have sufficient finances to run a Council
- requires a part-time registrar (20 hours per week minimum)
- this would have to be funded by subscriptions
10. How the Council communicates with the public
- open public website
11. There should be 80% of member organisations represented on the VSR
Council.
Agreement
Following the proposals that Maggie laid down, Paul, Ray and Pauline agreed in principle that the profession should proceed with VSR. It would put us in a much stronger position in the light of SSR of the Acupuncture profession. It was stated that practitioner members they represented would have to be consulted prior to proceeding further with taking the Auricular Acupuncture profession into VSR.
Initial Work required
1. Need to consult with members
2. Recruit an independent lay chair
3. Venue for VSR Council meetings
4. Start working on a constitution
5. Get all member organisations on board
6. Business plan and funding for Council
Jean Nestor explained that the PFIH would facilitate meetings once we have been accepted on to the VSR process
Extracts from Notes made by Pauline Ronson, Secretary Society of Auricular Acupuncturists
2nd May 2007
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