Services
- Doctor consultations – must have a medical qualification and registration
- Nurse consultations – must have a nursing qualification and registration
- Surgical referrals – must have a healthcare qualification and registration
- Clinical Queries – must have a healthcare qualification and registration
- Injection training – must have a healthcare qualification and registration
- Psychology services – must have a psychology qualification and registration
- Counselling services – must have a counselling qualification and registration
- GenderGP Sessions – IGS, FUS, Ask us Anything – training and registration provided by GenderGP
- GenderGP Pathway Services – training and registration provided by GenderGP
- GenderGP Pathway Queries – training and registration provided by GenderGP
Roles
Anybody who does not hold registration with an accredited register provides services as an Advisor – our Health, Wellbeing and Clinical Advisors – at either junior or senior level. They will support our members in their healthcare-related needs in accordance with Current guidance, research and best practice.
Verification Process
Protocol of Credentials Checks
- The Credentials checks will happen once every year in January; however if any of the contractors reaches out to us within the year, to inform us that their regulator has suspended their registration, then we would suspend their ability to provide that service for us. Furthermore, if they are under investigation, we would consider their ability to provide the service.
- The verification process is handled and owned by the People Department.
Collection of Documentation:
- In each Qualification Verification cycle, team members are notified via email to confirm their documents are up-to-date. If there are any changes, the team member is obligated to inform the People team of this, providing any accompanying document. They are also informed to alert us immediately if they are ever suspended or under investigation, even by any other organisation that they provide services to.
- The email correspondence thread during each Qualification Verification cycle is saved in the sub-folder called Quality Checks in the contractor’s People Team Folder.
Licensing & Regulatory Bodies:
UK – The required registration comes from regulators approved by the Professional Standards Authority. | ||
Role | Qualifications Required | UK Required Registration and licence to practise. |
Doctor | Medical School Qualification | Medical Council of their country eg UK is https://www.gmc-uk.org/registration-and-licensing/the-medical-register#searchTheRegister |
Nurse | Formal Nursing Qualification | Nursing and midwifery register https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/search-the-register/ |
Counsellor | BACP approved qualification https://www.bacp.co.uk/careers/careers-in-counselling/training/ | BACP Registration https://www.bacp.co.uk/search/RegisterNational Counselling Society https://ncps.com/ |
Psychotherapist | Must have approved qualifications and training in psychotherapy https://www.hcpc-uk.org/education/approved-programmes/ | HCPC DirectoryBPS DirectoryUKCP Directory |
Hypnotherapist | Must have approved qualifications and listed on one of these https://www.professionalstandards.org.uk/what-we-do/accredited-registers/find-a-register/-in-category/categories/professions/hypnotherapy | CNHC registeredNational Hypnotherapy Society – Accredited Registers | PSA |
Biomedical Scientist | Must have approved qualifications https://www.hcpc-uk.org/education/approved-programmes/ | HCPC Registrationhttps://www.hcpc-uk.org/check-the-register/ |
Clinical / Wellbeing / Pathway Advisor | No formal qualifications required – all work is supervised by a qualified professional and carried out according to protocol | GenderGP approval only |
Independent Prescriber | Must have a qualification in medicine, dentistry, nursing or pharmacy and have a licence and legal authority to prescribe medicines. |
Non-UK | ||
Role | Qualifications Required | Directory confirming licence to practise. |
Doctor | Medical School Qualification | Brazil Israel Croatia Egypt Guatamala Nigeria ( a NGN20,000 fee is required to verify a doctor’s name) Romania Serbia (Serbian Medical Chamber) Spain Turkey |
Counsellor | ||
Psychologist | ||
Clinical / Wellbeing / Pathway Advisor | No formal qualifications required – all work is supervised by a qualified professional and carried out according to protocol | |
Independent Prescriber | Must have a qualification in medicine, dentistry, nursing or pharmacy and have a licence and legal authority to prescribe medicines. |