I thought the reason for registration was to manage the people who could affect the outcome of patient care.
i.e. you could set a standard that people had to reach to get on the register, and remove them if they then did something wrong.
See the HPC web site for the reasons people have been removed from various registers.
Can we affect patient care? is the real question.
Yes if the equipment is not repaired/maintained/managed correctly.
The VRCT is a pre-cursor to compulsory regulation as Kawasaki says. It is a shame that political wrangling between various government departments and interested parties has meant that this vague, interim situation has dragged on so long and with no definite end in site.
Robert
