The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009

Amendment of the Health Professions (Parts of and Entries in the Register) Order of Council 2003

8.  In the Health Professions (Parts of and Entries in the Register) Order of Council 2003(1)—

(a) after article 6 insert the following article—

“Entries indicating the fields of competence of practitioner psychologists

6A.   Entries in Part 14 of the register are to include such entries as the Council considers appropriate to indicate whether the registrant’s field of competence is as a clinical psychologist, a counselling psychologist, an educational psychologist, a forensic psychologist, a health psychologist, an occupational psychologist, a sport and exercise psychologist, or a combination of these.”; and

(b) in Schedule 1 (parts of the register)—

(i) in column 1, after the entry “Part 13 – Operating Department Practitioners” add the following entry: “Part 14 – Practitioner Psychologists”, and

(ii) in column 2, after the entry “Operating Department Practitioner” and opposite the entry in column 1 added by paragraph (i), add the following entry: “Clinical Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist, Educational Psychologist, Forensic Psychologist, Health Psychologist, Occupational Psychologist, Practitioner Psychologist, Registered Psychologist, Sport and exercise Psychologist.”

(1)

S.I. 2003/1571; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2004/2522.