| CENTRA COUNSELLORS NETWORK |
CENTRA, DUXBURY PARK, CHORLEY
The meeting will begin at 9.30am, with tea/coffee and registration from 9.00am, a light lunch will be available from 12.30pm, and will end at approx 3.30pm.
Regulation of Counselling
The aim of the session is to bring members and others up to date with developments in the Department of Health proposals to regulation of counselling, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis:
- Regulation - background information and regulatory bodies
- Legal requirements, time frame and process for regulation
- Dual regulation
- Educational requirements
- Grandparenting
- Some of the challenges
Liz Plastow RMN, RGN, RSCPHN (HV), Pg Dip.Ed, MSc Healthcare (PPE), Nurse Prescriber
Currently professional advisor specialist community public health nursing and lead for medicines management with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and Professional Officer for Nursing to the Nursing Professional Leadership Team at the DH (England). She has worked in primary care over last 24 years.
Whilst at the NMC Liz has been responsible for writing the Standards of Proficiency for Nurse and Midwife Prescribers, the Standards for Medicines Management and the interim principles for Continuing Professional Development for nurse/midwife prescribers. She has been involved in the DH Steering Group on the regulation of acupuncture and is Education Advisor to The British Academy of Western Acupuncture.
Lord Ward-Atherton
Aaron Kenneth Ward-Atherton was educated in Birmingham and Liverpool, studied Homeopathic Medicine in Stuttgart, and subsequently at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital. In 1989 he was awarded a certificate in Post-Graduate Medical Education from Stanford University Medical School California.
He is Patron of Alkaptonuria Society, a member of the CDC committee at the University of Central Lancashire in 1993 and helped inaugurate the first degrees in Complementary Medicine. As well as advising the University of Salford on their degree in Chinese Medicine.
In addition, he has been Patron of the Complementary Therapies unit at Christie Hospital NHS Trust Manchester, He is also Patron of the National Register of Hypnotherapists & Psychotherapists, the Lyme Disease Action Trust, and Chair of the British Academy of Western Medical Acupuncture and is immediate past President of the Acupuncture Association of NHS Chartered Physiotherapists.
Kenneth is an editorial committee member for Elsevier, and is presently a member of the Department of Health Steering Committee, preparing recommendations for the statutory regulation of Acupuncture and Herbal Medicines.
Programme
The session will include a variety of discussion and practical activities:
- 09.30 Arrival, Registration & Tea/Coffee
- 10.00 Welcome & Introductions
- 09.45 Main discussion topic!
- 11.15 Tea/Coffee
- 11.30 Topics continued
- 12.30 Light Lunch
- 1.15 Discussion on some of the issues and the way forward
- 2.30 Sharing knowledge, understanding and practice
- 3.30 Summary, Evaluation, Close and plans for the next network meeting
As usual, the meeting is free for up to 2 delegates from each member organisation or costs £69 per delegate for non-members. . You can book on line at bookonline or call Ellen Luetchford on 01257 244910 or email Ellen on ellenl@centra.org.uk.
