General Osteopathic Council Reviews 20

20 administrators ruining Osteopathy in the UK.

As an Osteopath you learn that us Osteopaths can affect much more than the musculoskeletal system. It is inherent in our Degree. Yet the gosc in the UK do their very best to undermine the Degree teachings forcing Osteopaths to limit its scope of practice advertising as a Joint Pain Therapy.

It is about time the CEO of the gosc, if it still exists going forward, is an Osteopath.

Currently it is 'work the way up the gosc ladder' Matthew Redford who has zero credentials for the role.

There are of course times where Osteopaths have to be removed, no doubt, but the amount of cases where they have shown their bully-boy and bully-girl powers to strike off some of the best UK Osteopaths is worrying.

In my case after being Registered with them, i.e. supporting their luxury London office, I suggested on the world wide platform LinkedIn that I was an Osteopath. Throughout that time I haven't practised due to an injury myself. If you qualify in Osteopathy, what can you call yourself Professionally then? Their posting online painted me to be some sort of major Criminal when my Business has actually promoted the Profession and saved the NHS on Musculoskeletal Injury referrals and surgeries. At no time did they say '' He qualified from the European School of Osteopathy and was registered between such dates.'' They even gave themselves embarrassment of charging me a ''victim surcharge'' of £800. Where were the victims? There were none. Only 1000s of people helped since Osteopathic Solutions Ltd had been started.

It's almost like the sociopaths there get a joy from what they do.

I look forward to either the removal of the gosc, or at worst the replacement of Redford with a Professional Osteopath, and not a glossed up administrator he is.

Osteopathy still has a poor name in the UK. The majority of Medical Doctors have no respect for an Osteopath, some even laugh at it calling it ''massage''. Most on the street think it's just backs. And that will be a minority of people too. This ignorance is the failure of the gosc and Redford.

Osteopathy was stronger before the Osteopaths Act. Osteopathy in the UK was stronger before 1997 when the gosc started.

If you graduate in Osteopathy, no matter if you are having a career break from Clinical Treatment of Patients .. you are an Osteopath until you die!

The General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) ha ha can be "improved" by being abolished because it is a serious blight on the noble profession of Osteopathy. GOsC was created by Government to destroy osteopathy in order to protect pharmaceutical business because our politicians have their snouts very deeply in the Big Pharma trough. The remit of the GOsC is to sabotage the profession by witch-hunts against the best Osteopaths and retaining mediocre/poor practitioners and by brutally enforcing prohibition against registrants to claim to treat anything except a tiny list of trivial ailments. The GOsC uses stooges to pose as (bogus) patients to generate a false complaint against an Osteopath who is then subjected to a kangaroo court with a predetermined outcome. Often NHS staff and Police collude in these frauds against Osteopaths. It happened to me. I WAS LABELLED MENTALLY ILL BY THE GOsC BECAUSE I ACTED TO SAVE THE LIFE OF A STRANGER ON A WEEKEND AS A GOOD SAMARITAN ACT - no hyperbole, no word of a lie here. I was told I was "mentally ill" and suffering from a "personality disorder" and "unfit to practice" because I acted to save a human life - but these people were planted on me to generate a bogus complaint of which there is no proof - total fabrication. I was denied the right to tell my version of events, denied legal representation, denied due process, false testimony against me given to GOsC by Police and Medical Practitioners, my phones were tapped - there is no avenue of redress through the Courts whatever - the Courts/Judges are in collusion as they sold protection to the pharmaceutical industry. GOsC registrants are not allowed to summon the emergency services (police/ambulance) in a life-threatening emergency. I got proof the GOsC are doing this on an industrial scale. They don't want you to get better because obscene amounts of money are made from keeping people sick. All the regulators - GMC, GOsC, GCC, MHRA etc all there to protect Big Pharma. They can't allow practitioners to cure people because then there would be no market for drugs. Read "The Drug Story: A Factological History of America's $10,000,000,000 Drug Cartel" by Morris A Bealle - can get Kindle on Amazon for less than £2 or can get a free PDF on internet - should be mandatory reading for all human beings. The GOsC only take out the best really good osteopaths - this is why they took out Michelle because she cures her patients. Therefore if you want a really good osteopath who will cure you you need to look elsewhere not the GOsC register. I (Dr Julia Spivack, Steppingley, Bedfordshire) - I have a whole page on my site about GOsC corruption. I have PROOF of intentional harm and death of patients and practitioners by the GOsC. I reported it to Bedfordshire Police who investigated and were ready to prosecute the GOsC but senior officers in Bedfordshire Police quashed the investigation because the GOsC's true agenda is protected and covered up by Governments both Labour and Conservative. The public have no idea of the vicious underbelly of this country. This Big Pharma corruption was created by the Tony Blair government and the public have just voted in another Labour government !!! Stay away from these evil people at the GOsC and their dangerous register. I resigned my GOsC registration in 2010 after my then MP Nadine Dorries refused to take appropriate action. Michelle has all my details. True Osteopathy is a complete standalone system of medicine for the CURE OF ALL DISEASE including infectious disease and cancer. Osteopathy comprises Surgery, Obstetrics and General Practice for CURE OF ALL DISEASE. Come and get me GOsC if you dare ! True Osteopathy is founded on a metaphysical/spiritual premise that living beings are essentially spiritual beings projecting into this "physical dimension". The founder of Osteopathy, Dr Andrew Taylor Still, stated that "Osteopathy is a very sacred science........no human hand framed its laws.......God is the father of Osteopathy and I am not ashamed of the child of his mind".

The recent judgement against Michelle Davies was an absolute travesty. This council struck off one of their finest practitioners on what appeared to me as ridiculous charges, using incorrect court procedure, when she clearly has an unblemished record of almost 30 years. Her ability to facilitate deep healing on an holistic level is incredible (I know from personal experience.) She has integrity, honesty and a passion for improving her clients' wellness. It was plain to see on the live stream of her hearing that the council were uncomfortable with her excellent defence, strength and utter integrity, answering only to God as her authority. That made them visibly uncomfortable which was interesting. The council appears to me to be a blight on an amazing healing modality, not working in the interests of the professional members they are supposed to represent by not allowing them to publish genuine testimonials because those successes are not on their approved short list. It's laughable to think they found her a danger to the public and that she allegedly brought the profession into disrepute. They seem to have done that by themselves, looking at other reviews.

A gang regulating their own gang. They only target osteopaths who turn against them while leaving their own to do whatever they want. I've seen how even with evidence that they cannot dismiss, they will still lie about everything and manipulate constantly with snotty messages to delay their "investigation" process indefinitely. If you question them they will do more out of spite.

I was recently privy to the deliberations of the General Osteopathic Council in their assessment of a member's right to remain in the association. The result was to reject Michelle Davis from the Council. I have recently had the fortune to be healed by Michelle and the results have been truly remarkable. She has been doing this for 27 years successfully, treating the public and the decision is a poor reflection of the Council and I believe will result in bringing it into disrepute.

The cult-like followers leaving reviews for their "healer" with the standard parroted dogma shows why a better organisation than GoSC needs to more do work in taking down corrupt pseudoscientific manipulators i.e. spiritual healers/osteopaths/new age religious leaders.

I attended the Public Hearing of Michelle Davies and found it a most upsetting experience witnessing ‘professionals’ hounding this practitioner who’s conduct has been exemplary and whose honesty and integrity is a good example to us all.
It seems that members of this body have to conform to a prescribed way of thinking and societal view. The means by which she was judged by the Council were extremely manipulative, the suggestion of being subjected to a psychiatric appointment is stunning, but this very means is by no means a new tactic of such bodies trying to find a way to break someone of such sound mind.
Michelle deserves an apology and a bow if the GOsC is to move on into the 21st Century with integrity.

The General Osteopathic Council falls short in virtually every aspect of its responsibilities. If I could give zero stars, I would – unfortunately, even this review system has higher standards than the GOsC.

The council seems determined to continue to limit the scope of healing, preventing people with ill health from accessing effective natural treatments away from the pharmaceutical industry.

Instead of seeing pharmacy signs in every town, we should see glowing Osteopathy signs, wouldn't that be a world we would all like to see! a holistic, drug-free health care system.

Urgent reforms are needed to ensure the GOsC can truly serve the public interest and start to actually maintain the standards of the osteopathic profession. Until such changes are made, confidence in the GOsC will continue to erode.

Sadly, to allow me to write this review, I needed to fill in a star which isn’t merited.
I was at Michelle Davies’ hearing on June 3rd and 4th, 2024 and I was appalled to experience her case. Thankfully, the association will not stop an impactful healer who has 27 years and 54,000 patients and counting experience and with no previous complaints.
It’s important for the credibility of the General Ostepathic Council to take a mirror and look deeply to question their integrity and intentions. A joyful day for Michelle on the last day and a big question mark over the credibility of this council.

As a former school inspector I understand and value the need for regulation, checks and balances. Having witnessed this body in process l deem it to make decisions without clear and concrete evidence. My Osteopath was judged to be unfit to practice with nothing concrete to prove this. She has had NO complaints after 27 years of successful practice and I feel affronted that my glowing reference for her, amongst many others, has been ignored
A full evaluation by on official governmental body needs to be deployed on The General Osteopathic Council.

Total injustice has been served on a true healer. Why do Osteopaths spend years studying only to be allowed to treat a list of complaints (created by a chiropractor)? The Council is treacherous to its own profession! A tragic day when a truly amazing healer like Michelle is struck off after 27 years of unblemished service. Patients are her priority. You have obviously never been treated by her. It’s insulting she should have been asked to sit a medical ..her work speaks for itself. She has literally saved people’s lives with her work on depression and anxiety. Fortunately she will not be stopped and your council will be reduced to rubble as you continue to diminish the profession.

Can I give less than one star? Hasn't this been going on long enough?! I have been seeing this wonderful lady for years now and stupid to say I cannot get by without her. I wonder how much money the level of incompetence by the osteopathy council has cost! What more can we do to help ensure she is protected from this living nightmare she is being put through for doing NOTHING WRONG!! I am so angry at the glee you seem to be getting and enjoying this whole charade. We're all sticking by her... Not you!

The council can strike off an Osteo for 'doing too well' by healing people and those people then leaving glowing testimonials and never having had a single complaint against them from a customer or colleague.
What sort of Osteopathists would they prefer? Ones that don't perform as well? It would seem so.

They are living in the dark ages, punishing true healers in the profession. They do not give a fair hearing to genuine Osteopaths, who are bound by out of touch rules and regulations. They are not interested in supporting natural health and wellbeing.

Who exactly does this organisation protect? Itself? Big pharma? It’s members or patients? I am unsure about the answer but I am certain it doesn’t work in the interests of its members or their patients. Very poor!

Having recently spent days witnessing The General Osteopathic Council in action, it is my opinion that they are nothing more than a cabal of self interested hypocrites, who don't even follow their own rules and -that's being charitable

The GOC are clearly an organization that is now out of date and who’s intentions and actions go against the members of public best interest when people are in need of quality osteopathic care.
They punish honest, hard working osteopaths who are curing people and then operate in a continuous self-protection mode.

It’s clearly time for a much needed review of the organization and a complete overhaul is required.

GoSC has a genuine-looking exterior to convince you and parliament that they are protecting the public. Inside it's the opposite and is run by osteopaths protecting their ring, through a variety of methods.

It's a matter of time before they are held accountable by a public union, in the media or in parliament.

They don't listen to your concerns. Their osteopaths seem to run riot doing what they like how they like. They're not being watched over thus patients aren't safe because this body don't investigate they put all the onus on the patient to prove which sometimes isn't possible - v bad.

They dismissed my complaint with no explanation, I eventually found out why and it was not a valid reason. I complained about this but it was glossed over. They do not follow their own rules for dealing initial complaints and there is no complaints procedure about how they handle complaints. Unprofessional. It means that osteopaths in general are not properly regulated.