Fitness to Practise for Irish based Health and Social Care Professionals
CORU, the Health and Social Care Professional Regulator will ensure professional standards are met, so protecting the public.
The designated professions are social workers, clinical biochemists, dietitians, medical scientists, occupational therapists, orthoptists, physiotherapists, podiatrists, psychologists, radiographers, social care workers and speech and language therapists. The Optician’s Board is being transferred to CORU in 2015.
Ms Kathleen Lynch TD, launched Fitness to Practice for Ireland’s regulated Health and Social Care Professions. For the first time CORU, Ireland’s Health and Social Care Regulator, can enact their legal and investigative powers to examine complaints from members of the public, on any event that took place after the 31 December 2014, about the professional conduct of a health and social care professional, ultimately determining whether a registered professional is fit to practice or not.
Details on Fitness to Practice complaints process are available at www.coru.ie. It will be possible for members of the public to get formal complaints examined against a host of professions including dieticians, social workers, opticians, physiotherapists etc.
Wed 21 Jan 2014