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Topper VRCT fee's still stand at a tenner (thank goodness for now) it could be worse and be the same as nurses have to pay ie £90 I think? please correct if I'm wrong!

On more lump of coal for the fire - one thing about being registered - will the NHS actually check, there has been a few (inverted coma's) case's recently of doctors,surgeons and a few others not even qualified in the jobs they are in.

I'm off to work in Gibraltar in a few weeks, what a place, first time i was there some nurses were found smoking in the SCBU - that's patient care for you!

DW - When the going gets tough, get a contractor in!

Re Techman

As for the gas fitter regulation (corgi) that didnt stop the fitter that put the gas fire in my house from not tightening the connection. Registration didnt sort that. (A check by someone else might have worked).

As for the higher charge when the HPC get hold of it, well what guarantee do you have that you wont have paid all those years to the VRCT only to be told tough, you have to pay the HPC as they dont recognise VRCT. Have you a solicitor proof contract that states the payment will carry on at the present amount.

Billy

Hi all by the way I am ex RAF (LFittNI) with many many years experience in electronics and Navigation Systems. Even in the 70's the military technology and equipment was far superior to the majority of healthcare equipment in use today. How may Nuclear Bombs have dropped on your house?... no errors there then! The training Service personnel receive is far superior to any training given to Technicians in the NHS currently as far as I have seen in my long career to date. Maybe this would explain why the Ex-Service Technician members of the NHS are able to apply themselves to Technologist work and so quickly too! Maybe all healthcare Technicians and Technologists could get their training and acreditation from the Services... now that makes more sense to me. A register proves nothing except one thing they have you by the b**ls and of course the expense.... imagine charging all the Service Men and Women to be allowed to perform their duties. As for the NHS my Military service training, basic and advanced has helped me all the way in my 26+ years working in the NHS I have what is known as transferable skills. Wow!

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Topper VRCT fee's still stand at a tenner (thank goodness for now) it could be worse and be the same as nurses have to pay ie £90 I think? please correct if I'm wrong!

Technicians £10 (voluntatry)

Nurses £90 (Compulsory)

Spot the difference Noddy!!

Best wishes

Paul

VRCT is £30.00 (since August 2007)
VRC is £45.00 Initial application then £25.00 for renewal.

Note: VRC is the Voluntary Registration Council (google it)

I would expect a statutory Register to charge all Registrants the same whether on VRCT or not eg. if you renew your VRCT (£30) and a couple of months later the "actual" Register goes live, you would sill pay the full amount.
i think it naive and misleading to see VRCT as a "no claims protection" against the full price of statutory Regulation.

John

Quote:For £10, it is a risk not worth taking. I have advised all our technicians to join. It is their choice.

Agreed it's not a risk worth taking, but isn't this a case of serving a bureaucratic requirement with no tangible benefit on the shop floor?

Best wishes

Paul

Not suggesting that HPC won't be more, it almost certainly will be. Just alluding to the likelihood that registering with HPC, when it happens, may cost a lot more than registering now with VRCT. Always assuming that, as mooted, once on VRCT then transfer to HPC will be automatic. May be totally wrong, time will tell.

Ultimately, it come down to choice (at the moment). Either join/stay with VRCT or don't.

Incidentally I think my last renewal was still £10.

VRCT Application / reapplication £30
Annual renewal £10
It appears that VRCT and VRC whilst being seperate entities are claiming the same goal, see their website(www.vrcouncil.org)
Are they competing? Clarification anybody?
Topper

In a nutshell, as far as I understand it, a number of other "aspirant" groups in the NHS are being included on voluntary registers since they aspire to obtain "professional status". Same goal - different parts of the HPC register, i.e. different scopes of practice in different professional groups.

Each group is affiliated with a professional body, e.g. IPEM, and a register of individuals on each of the sections of the voluntary register(s) are being maintained by organisations such as VRCT.

The transition to HPC is then apparently going to be made from the voluntary registers onto the HPC register. Meanwhile each group supports maintenance of the register they're included on, financially, and the professional institution or association, e.g. VRC, VRCT, administers this, I believe.

VRC supports "Healthcare Sciences" the VRCT supports "Clinical Technology" - this is not just an issue that's been thrust upon us - a number of traditinally related, non-professional groups, e.g. physiologists (ECG, EEG, Critical Care Technologists, etc, etc), are also going for professional regulation.