IOCP News

POSITION STATEMENT POM-A

Injections of medicines including  intra and peri – articular injection therapies  by HCPC registered Podiatrists with POM-A annotation Qualified podiatrists who are awarded licences in POM-A (prescription only medicine- administration), as either part of theirRead more

MHRA STATEMENT ON PRP

18th October 2023 An official statement regarding Platelet Rich Plasma has been issued by the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. MHRA Platelet Rich Plasma

HCPC – Revised Standards of conduct, performance and ethics

Communication from the HCPC 11th October 2023 The HCPC has now published its response to our review of the Standards of conduct, performance and ethics. You can find the full response here. The revised StandardsRead more

Diabetes Professional Care, 15th & 16th Nov, London

The Institute of Chiropodists and Podiatrists are proud to support this year’s Diabetes Professional Care Conference & Exhibition. Diabetes Professional Care, the UK’s leading conference and exhibition for the diabetes healthcare community, has announced itsRead more

Government Occupational Health Consultation

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) opened the new consultation ‘ Occupational Health: Working Better ’, on 20 July 2023. This consultation seeks views on proposals aimed at increasing employer use of occupational health (OH)Read more

Prescription Only Medicine

List of POMs that can be supplied to a podiatrist and then sold directly to a patient with the appropriate annotation (Prescription Only – sale/supply) All registered podiatrists can sell, supply any GSL medicine. ExternalRead more

An Introduction To The Foot – David R Tollafield

An Introduction To The Foot and Its Common Problems in the Adult By David R. Tollafield The Institute of Chiropodists and Podiatrists are excited and proud to have commissioned this dynamic and important handbook, byRead more

Case Notes: Bullous Phemphigoid

Written by Helen Rawse To read this article please click here https://iocp.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Bullous-Pephigoid.pdf Case Notes is a regular feature in the IoCP quarterly publication – Podiatry Review. Every member will have seen unusual patients and/or willRead more

Updated information – Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP)

20th June 2023 Further to our statement on the use of Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) on 9th June 2023, we can confirm we are in direct conversation with the MHRA to obtain the facts inRead more

Urgent Safety Notice: Platelet Rich Plasma

Urgent safety notice – unrestricted please share. The Medicines and Healthcare Agency is urgently reviewing the status of Platelet Rich Plasma prepared and injected at point of care. This now has been given provisional statusRead more