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- Member consultation opens on NHS pay in Scotland
- Royal College of Podiatry receives pay offer for members working for the NHS in Scotland
- Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme - important changes for Scotland from April 2025
- Royal College of Podiatry becomes an affiliate of the General Federation of Trade Unions
- The RCPod publishes its report on the state of independent practice in podiatry
- Northern Ireland pay award backdated to April 2024
- RCPod appoints new Head of Education & Academic Quality Assurance
- AGM 2025: Call for member resolutions
- RCPod appoints new Chief Clinical Advisor
- Mapping the UK AHP Practitioner-Academic/Clinical-Academic Workforce Survey 2025
- Pay for members working for the NHS in Northern Ireland
- The RCPod reaffirms its support for an above inflation NHS pay rise in evidence submitted to the Pay Review Body
- Call for nominations to the Independent Practice Group
- The RCPod launches 2025 public awareness campaign
- Royal College of Podiatry Strategy 2025-2030 – Consultation feedback
- The RCPod and BOFAS sign Memorandum of Understanding
- Members of the Royal College of Podiatry in the Isle of Man accept pay offer
- Call for nominations for Council. Help to lead our transformation journey
- Dean of the Faculty of Podiatric Surgery challenges misleading editorial
- The Royal Visit to Australia, October 2024
- Members working for NHS Wales vote to accept pay offer
- The Royal College of Podiatry receives pay offer of 4% for members working in the Isle of Man
- Evidence for NHS Pay Review Body 2025/26
- Delay in implementing new post-Brexit customs rules for parcels
- The RCPod seeks a new Chair-elect for a three-year term to chair its Annual Conference and its Annual Conference Committee
- Consultation on NHS pay offer with RCPod members in Scotland
- Members in England overwhelmingly accept NHS pay offer
- The Royal College of Podiatry receives a pay offer of 5.5% for its NHS members in Scotland
- The College of Podiatry Trust
- Royal College of Podiatry statement to members on the recent disturbances
- RCPod advises members on next steps as Shuropody enters liquidation
- The RCPod welcomes Pay Review Body's 5.5% pay increase recommendation
- RCPod comments on the King's Speech
- Update for BUPA-recognised podiatrists
- Royal College of Podiatry attendance at UK careers fairs
- General Election
- A Manifesto for Podiatry
- Contribute to our vision for the future of Podiatry
- Call for nominations for a seat on the Research Committee (Year 2024)
- Update to the contraindications listings for products containing povidone-iodine
- Diabetes Africa launches a new Diabetes footcare in dark skin tones handbook
- Renewal of your HCPC registration and the HCPC audit
- New importation process for Northern Ireland businesses under Windsor Framework Agreement
- Council Election results 2024
- Northern Ireland members overwhelmingly vote to accept pay offer for 2023/24
- Royal College of Podiatry initiates negotiations with BUPA over Podiatry Network terms
- Isle of Man members unanimously approve 6% pay increase
- Offer made for Agenda for Change staff working in Northern Ireland for pay period 2023/2024
- Manx Care offers 6% pay increase to RCPod members on the Isle of Man
- Royal College of Podiatry submits evidence for NHS Pay Review 2024
- Correction and clarification: Medicines review in The Podiatrist
- Manx Care 2022-2023. Pay Update for RCPod Members on the Isle of Man
- The RCPod publishes the full process to accredit foot health support workers
- The RCPod publishes a new policy statement about the podiatric management of children and adults with Cerebral Palsy
- AHP principles of practice-based learning: working together to develop our future workforce
- The RCPod makes recommendations to the Scottish government ahead of the 2023/2024 pay award
- Podiatrist wins new award for long campaign to improve diabetes foot care in Northern Ireland
- RCPod comment on the Autumn Statement
- The RCPod publishes a decade-long analysis of podiatric care data
- Michelle Tennyson appointed to Chief AHP Officer in Northern Ireland
- Use of nitrous oxide in podiatry settings
- Royal College gives evidence to the Integration of primary and community care committee
- Professor Sarah Curran named as the new UK Editor-in-Chief of JFAR
- Awards for podiatry services in Wales
- Podium Professional joins the Royal College of Podiatry Professionally Approved range
- Update for members who are current or former employees of Shuropody
- The Royal College of Podiatry calls for change at the TUC Congress
- The Royal College of Podiatry makes a vital contribution to Walk yourself happy, by Julia Bradbury
- Royal College of Podiatry surveys its independent practice members to map the private podiatry workforce
- Footscan from Gait and Motion Technology joins the Professionally Approved Range
- RCPod appears on Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4
- The RCPod publishes its workforce and education reform programme
- DWP consultation seeks views about professionals who can sign fit notes
- Manx Care dispute settled after improved pay offer
- Dr Jane McAdam elected as the next Chair of the Royal College of Podiatry
- Announcing the HeartSine 500P as the latest Professionally Approved product with the Royal College of Podiatry
- Royal College of Podiatry's statement on NHS England's long term workforce plan
- NHS pay settlement in England
- Royal College of Podiatry Fellow knighted in King's birthday honours
- The RCPod updates its members about PRP injections
- RCPod tells its members to stop providing PRP injections
- Podiatrists with Shuropody
- Joint call to the Prime Minister to unblock the NHS Workforce Plan
- Podiatry student joins forces with The Clinton Foundation and The College of Podiatry Trust to develop a vital educational project
- NHS Wales members vote to accept latest pay deal
- Update on the management of respiratory infections in healthcare workers
- Withdrawal of extended face mask and face covering measures across health and social care settings in Scotland
- NHS pay offer in England to be paid to members following Staff Council meeting
- The Coronation of His Majesty The King Charles III
- The RCPod rejects NHS England pay offer
- Update on pay negotiations for NHS workers in Wales
- Royal College of Podiatry appoints new Chief Executive Officer and General Secretary
- UK Government Emergency Alert testing on Sunday
- Five new members elected to the RCPod Council
- Statement on call for a separate pay spine for nurses in the NHS
- Royal College of Podiatry to consult members over the offer on NHS pay in England
- NHS members in Scotland vote to accept pay deal
- The Royal College of Podiatry receives 5% pay offer for NHS staff in England
- NHS pay - England update
- RCPod approves podiatry badge for Girlguiding movement and will manage its national rollout
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Blog
- Pride month: Celebrating LGBTQ+ communities and promoting inclusivity in our workplaces
- Celebrating International Archives Day: Showcasing the Centre for the History of Podiatric Medicine
- The role of mentoring in cultural diversity
- My Experience as a Podiatrist at the Marathon Des Sables
- What's new at this year's FoPS conference?
- The RCPod supports Heart Unions Week 2024
- The Royal College of Podiatry Registered Member logo
- Celebrating National Mentoring Day
- Empowering voices in podiatry. Speak up week in Scotland 2023
- Celebrating the accomplishments of black women in society
- Celebrating groundbreaking women of colour in podiatry: Dr Mildred Dixon
- Fostering open dialogue in podiatry. Speak up month 2023
- Black History Month 2023: Celebrating sisterhood
- Are leaders born or made?
- Fifty years of podiatric surgery in the UK
- How can AHPs help carers?
- Self-employed Associates
- The importance of language when speaking to patients
- Cardiovascular detection
- Advancing healthcare awards. Northern Ireland 2022
- Strengthening the foot health workforce
- History in the making
- Football boots Q&A, with Dr Katrine Okholm Kryger
- Spotlight on podiatry at the London Marathan
- The challenges of working in the community for a student of Nigerian parentage
- Access to podiatry services for minority communities
- Black History Month 2022 - events and resources
- Black History Month 2022
- Your children and their feet
- Back to school
- International Archives Day
- May is national skin cancer awareness month
- Ready to return to practice
- New legal duty to provide PPE for all workers and not just employees
- Annual Conference 2021
- Get involved in Heart Unions week
- Violence against women
- Greener initiatives in podiatry
- Strengthen ties
- Black History Month
- CMT awareness month, October 2021
- Self-employed Associates - are you prepared?
- Sixty seconds with ... Martin Fox
- 2021 Leadership Programme
- The College of Podiatry becomes the Royal College of Podiatry
- The Royal College of Podiatry Post-nominals
- June is Pride month. What does that mean to you?
- How to get the most out of the Summer Festival of Learning
- How to make your practice LGBTIQ+ inclusive
- The magic of mentoring
- The cost of conflict at work
- Pharmacists' union promoting #Getvaccinated campaign
- Flu peer vaccination campaign 2020
- The most challenging time in my NHS career
- It was the worst of times it was the best of times
- International Women's Day 2021
- COVID-19 and the contribution of redeployed NHS Tayside podiatrists
- Training and preparing to become a COVID-19 vaccinator
- Podiatrist receives the COVID-19 vaccination
- Steve Jamieson's Christmas message
- A sustainable life
- Essential Festival Foot Guide
- Podiatry and football
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Events and Courses
- Assistant Practitioner Training Programme
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- 9th Podiatric sports medicine conference
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ACC Liverpool
- Annual conference 2021: Programme
- Annual conference 2021: Speakers
- Annual Conference 2021 - FAQs
- Conference programme: Thursday 18 November 2021
- Conference programme: Friday 19 November 2021
- Conference programme: Saturday 20 November 2021
- Annual Conference 2021: What you need to do
- Terms and conditions for delegates (including cancellation policy)
- Annual Conference 2021: Speakers 2
- ACC Liverpool 2021: Speakers
- Annual Conference 2021: Speakers 3
- Learning objectives: The power of seven. Martin Wright
- Learning objectives: The evolution of human skin pigmentation
- Learning objectives: Winning the foot health lottery
- Learning objectives: Advancing practice using plantar pressure analysis
- Learning objectives: Top tips to grow your business!
- Learning objectives: Bone substitute what’s the support?
- Learning objectives: The use of digital health in the management of dementia
- Learning objectives: Tomorrow’s world today how technology might impact on podiatry
- Learning objectives: Use of dermoscopy for melanoma
- Learning objectives: Diabetes and vascular workshop
- Learning objectives: Scratching the surface
- Learning objectives: Collectivism after COVID-19
- Learning objectives: Foot and lower limb biomechanics in diabetes
- Learning objectives: The story of COVID-19
- Learning objectives: Use of prolotherapy in musculoskeletal problems affecting the lower limb
- Learning objectives: Use of prolotherapy in medial tibial stress syndrome – avoiding surgery
- Learning objectives: Always something to see in dermatology
- Learning objectives: Forensic comparison of insole footprint marks
- Learning objectives: Forensic gait analysis
- Learning objectives: Introduction to the concepts of behaviour change
- Learning objectives: An introduction to health literacy
- Learning objectives: Practice accreditation – taking your practice to the top
- Learning objectives: Seven thousand feet
- Learning objectives: Curing diabetes without drugs
- Learning objectives: How to keep diabetic foot ulceration in remission
- Learning objectives: Measuring observations of the pattern of gait
- Learning objectives: Multi-morbidity are we prepared as podiatrists
- Learning objectives: The diabetes capability framework and its impact on service provision
- Learning objectives: Undergraduate teaching
- Learning objectives: Clinical cases of foot wounds in people with higher pigment
- Learning objectives: Keeping yourself and the planet well whilst you work!
- Learning objectives: How to get the most out of your BNF in clinical practice?
- Learning objectives: The Royal College of Podiatry - the opportunities are endless
- Learning objectives: First point of contact – How can podiatry be front and centre?
- Learning objectives: More than just skin – raising the game in podiatric dermatology
- Learning objectives: Assessment of falls and frailty in a podiatry setting
- Learning objectives: How to manage patient complaints
- Learning objectives: Does treatment designed according to subgroups improve clinical outcomes in people with Patellofemoral Pain?
- Learning objectives: Knee osteoarthritis – evidence-based treatments using orthoses
- Learning objectives: Recognising and management of the infected foot
- Learning objectives: Juvenile hallux valgus: current practice and conservative treatment
- Learning objectives: What are children's therapeutic footwear and how to prescribe them
- Learning objectives: Skin surgery for podiatrists extending our scope
- Learning objectives: Learning objectives: Ultrasound – The Clinician's Stethoscope
- Learning objectives: Where there is pain and blame is there always a claim?
- Learning objectives: Business finances - staying on the right side of HMRC
- Learning objectives: Wound healing cascade - Top tips
- Learning objectives: Latest research and advanced practice in wound care
- Learning objectives: The use of ultrasound in advancing practice
- Learning objectives: Orthotics for treatment of symptomatic flat feet in children: The OSTRICH trial
- Learning objectives: An update on the Epidermolysis Bullosa podiatry guideline 1 year on!
- Learning objectives: Suturing workshop
- Learning objectives: Military wound care
- Learning objectives: Bob Prince Memorial Lecture
- Learning objectives: General Dermatology for the Podiatrist
- ACC Liverpool: Security, November 2021
- Branches events
- Summer Festival of Learning 2021 - Programme
- Conferences and events
- Faculty of Podiatric Surgery Conference 2022
- Podiatry 2022
- Workforce reform project webinars
- Podiatric Surgery 2023
- Podiatric Surgery 2024
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Podiatry 2024
- Podiatry 2024: FAQs
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Branches events
- 23 and 24 May 2025: Glasgow
- 2 - 4 July 2025: Glasgow
- 5 October 2025: Buckinghamshire
- 12 May 2025: South Yorkshire
- 2 June 2025: South Yorkshire
- 21 July 2025: South Yorkshire
- 1 September 2025: South Yorkshire
- 6 October 2025: South Yorkshire
- 1 June 2025: London
- 10 September: Mid Sussex
- 7 May 2025: Mid Sussex event
- 9 June 2025: Mid Sussex
- 11October 2025: Mid Sussex
- Forty tests in one day
- Podiatry 2025
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COVID-19
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- Podiatrists and the COVID-19 vaccination programme
- COVID-19 winter plan
- COVID-19 vaccination programme - latest news
- COVID-19 vaccine and local anaesthetic
- The role of podiatry in reducing hospital admissions during the pandemic
- Advice on self-isolation
- Business support during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Advice for healthcare professionals visiting care homes during the pandemic
- Updated practice advice as lockdown is eased
- Lateral flow and surge testing
- UKHSA recommendations fore healthcare providers
- Winter 2023 vaccinations
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Press Releases
- Royal College of Podiatry publishes new framework to develop podiatrists' musculoskeletal skills
- The vital role of podiatry in keeping people active highlighted by Scotland's First Minister
- The College of Podiatry proposes solution to foot surgery waiting lists
- The College becomes the Royal College of Podiatry
- The College of Podiatry's response to Diabetes GIRFT Programme National Speciality Report
- The Duchess of Cornwall to be Patron of the College for a further term
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Latest COVID-19 news
- Lateral flow testing - England
- National booking line for the COVID-19 vaccination for frontline workers
- Skin signs due to COVID-19
- COVID-19 vaccinations for independent podiatrists in Wales
- South African variant of COVID-19
- Open letter to College of Podiatry members based in Scotland
- The College of Podiatry statement on vaccinations for all health and social care workers
- Cross-nation advice during lockdown
- Information for members practising in the Isle of Man on COVID-19 and the vaccination rollout
- Podiatrists and COVID-19 vaccinations
- College update following the return to full lockdown in England
- College update following the announcement of a new lockdown in Scotland from 5 January 2021
- College update following the announcement of Tier 4 restrictions in England
- College update following the announcement of lockdown in Northern Ireland from 26 December
- College update following a change to the COVID-19 rules in Wales
- Podiatry clinics and PPE
- COVID-19: Northern Ireland circuit breaker
- COVID-19: England lockdown, November 2020
- Scotland's strategic framework for COVID-19 and podiatric practice
- College update following Welsh government announcement on circuit break
- College update following the three-tier COVID-19 announcement
- NHS Track and Trace App to go live on 24th September
- PHE updates infection control advice
- Foot Health Week 2023
- Royal College of Podiatry Awards
- Foot Health Week
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RCPod's response to consultations
- Royal College of Podiatry's response to the Senedd's Health and Social Care Committee inquiry into the future of general practice
- RCPod's response to the Senedd's Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee's inquiry into apprenticeship pathways
- RCPod's response to the DHSC consultation: Leading the NHS: proposals to regulate NHS managers
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- RCPod's response to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency on the proposed change to the protected title for podiatric surgery
- RCPod's response to the Health and Care Profession's Council consultation on registration fees
- RCPod's response to Welsh Government consultation on draft regulations and statutory guidance for a mandatory licensing scheme for special procedures in Wales
- RCPod's response to Living with arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions in Wales: a framework for the future 2024-2029
- Response to the HEIW's AHPs workforce development plan
- Response to NICE on the consultation on the draft guideline on menopause
- Royal College of Podiatry's response to the Department of Health and Social Care's Major Conditions strategy
- RCPod's response to Heath Education and Improvement Wales' draft education and training plan 2024-25
- Royal College’s Special Advisory Groups for Dermatology and Independent Practice responded to NICE’s call for information in IP1324
- Response to the Health and Social Care Select Committee Inquiry: Prevention in health and social care
- Royal College of Podiatry's response to the Hewitt Review: Call for evidence
- RCPod's response to the HCPC's consultation on changes to fees
- RCPod's response to the Scottish Government's national conversation to inform a new dementia strategy
- The College of Podiatry's response to Health Education England and the Foot Health Consortium on the draft standards for the foot health workforce
- Evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee
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Policy statements and responses
- RCPod responds to Scottish Government's Programme for Government 2023-24
- RCPod comment on the 2024 Spring Budget
- The RCPod responds to the Scottish and Welsh Budgets 2024/25
- Royal College of Podiatry's comment on the King's Speech
- RCPod updates its response to the NHS England Long Term Plan
- RCPod response to the Windsor Framework
- The RCPod responds to the First Minister's Priorities for Scotland
- The RCPod responds to the Spring 2023 budget
- The RCPod view on fit notes
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Workforce and education reform programme
- Modernisation and reform of the twenty-first century podiatrist
- Placement recovery and expansion
- Retention and support for students, the newly-qualified workforce and careers
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Profession specific interventions
- The benefits of first contact practitioners
- Where does first contact podiatry fit into primary care?
- How cost effective is the concept of first contact podiatrists?
- How do I become a first contact practitioner?
- First contact practitioner podiatrist - resources
- Inclusive engagement of podiatrists in research
- Incentives/benefits of involvement in research
- The research pathway
- Case studies
- What are first contact practitioners?
- How first contact podiatrists facilitate the NHS Long Term Plan
- Consultation seeking views on the process to accredit educational providers and individuals who meet the Standards for the Foot Health Workforce: feedback form
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Diabetes leaflets
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- Looking after your diabetic foot ulcer to reduce the risk of amputation
- Advice for looking after your Charcot foot to reduce the risk of amputation
- Looking after your foot in remission, to reduce the risk of further ulcers and amputation
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Blog
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- Looking back: March 1925
- Looking back - Season's Greetings
- The Runting Exhibition
- Looking back: Lectures, branches and lawsuits
- Harrogate 1931
- Manchester Foot Hospital was founded one hundred years ago this month
- How podiatry carved out a role for itself in the NHS
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- Looking back at Foot Health Week from 70 years ago
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