The Federation for Healthcare Science consists of 46 member professional bodies, associations and societies that represent the 50,000 workforce that covers healthcare science in the health service. The major role of the Federation is to articulate the collective views of its member organisations on matters that are significant for the practice of healthcare science in all its many and diverse forms within the health service.

In responding to consultation documents, comments are focused on generic principles that have the support of all member organisations. Issues of detail that may be relevant to specific profession groups will be dealt with as appropriate within responses from individual societies.

The Federation is grateful for the opportunity to comment and notes that most of this particular consultation relates to amendments that are consequential on due parliamentary process. Nevertheless the Federation welcomes the inclusion of the Operating Department Practitioners within the Health Professions Order, and recognises the necessity of the Miscellaneous Amendments that includes name change updates.

The ability to enable registration applications to be accepted on line reflects the current wide availability of IT communications. Obviously the HPC Executive would need to implement a system that incorporated appropriate fail save procedures and security checks, that would provide robust evidence of application in the event of disputes.

The issue of fixing the renewal cycle appears to be a formalisation of the procedure already used by HPC. The ability for registrants and re-registrants to pay pro-rata to the remainder of the year in which they rejoin should be a priority.

23 August 2004

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