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The Legal Aspects of Complementary Therapy Practice

A Guide for Healthcare Professionals

  • 1st Edition - September 3, 1998
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Bridgit Dimond
  • Language: English

All healthcare professionals working with complementary therapies must be fully aware of legal boundaries, responsibilities and liabilities in the practice of complementary… Read more

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Description

All healthcare professionals working with complementary therapies must be fully aware of legal boundaries, responsibilities and liabilities in the practice of complementary therapies. This book covers all the main topics and principles and deals with points specific to individual therapies, helping practitioners to practice confidently.

Key features

  • Legal aspects of using and integrating complementary therapies in health care practice present an area of anxiety for therapists, nurses and others
    • Bridget Dimond is very well known in the UK as a speaker in this topic. It is the subject on which she is most frequently asked to talk at conferences.
  • Information is clearly presented and extremely practical

    • Readership

    Aromatherapists, massage therapists, reflexologists, acupuncturists, herbalists, homoeopaths, osteopaths, chiropractors.

    Table of contents

    Brief History and Membership Numbers, Links with Traditional Medicine Controlling Body. Registration (If Applicable), Membership, Admission Qualifications, Examinations. Definitions of Standards of Competence. Rules on Professional Misconduct, Control and Discipline. Insurance Cover and Professional Indemnity. Definitions for Purchasing Contracts. Special Situations with Legal Significance.

    Product details

    • Edition: 1
    • Latest edition
    • Published: October 9, 1998
    • Language: English

    About the author

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    Bridgit Dimond

    Affiliations and expertise
    Barrister-at-Law, Emeritus Professor of the University of Glamorgan