Code of Conduct - Advertising
The Board has recently amended its Code of Conduct to include the following under "Transparency" on page 8:
"The practitioner shall not advertise a chiropractic practice or chiropractic services in a manner which uses, refers to or quotes from testimonials or purported testimonials. The use of testimonials within a practitioner's own practice is acceptable.".
The Board considers that the use of testimonials in external advertising is bringing the profession into disrepute and thus is unprofessional. This restriction is in line with the requirements of other Registration Boards in Australia.
Draft Policy - Assistants
The Board has recently received complaints about registered practitioners allowing assistants to perform tasks and techniques/modalities outside their scope of practice and training.
The policy is aimed at ensuring practitioners provide adequate supervision and direction to assistants and do not delegate tasks and modalities which should only be performed by the treating practitioner.
Comments from the profession on the "Draft Policy - Assistants in Chiropractic or Osteopathy Practice" would be appreciated by 30 September 2005.
NOTE: As of August 2006, the draft policy above is no longer available to download. Please refer to the final adopted version of the policy available under "Publications - Other Guidelines/Policies" on this website.