Bulletin: March 2021
Scottish Government Newly Self-Employed Hardship Fund (NSEHF) and Mobile & Home-Based Close Contact Services Funds The GHR has been informed by the Healthcare Quality and Improvement Directorate, Health and Social Care, Scottish Government, of a package of financial support that is now open for applications as follows: The Scottish Government’s Newly Self-Employed Hardship Fund (NSEHF) and Mobile ...
read moreBulletin: January 2021
Government Directives during the current National Lockdown FOR PRACTITIONERS England The Government has previously stated that it cannot provide comments on individual cases of whether or not a business is permitted to open and that is presumably still their position. It therefore remains for each business to assess whether they are a business ...
read moreBulletin: December 2020
Government Guidance that came into effect on 2nd December 2020 England The Government has stated that it cannot provide comments on individual cases of whether or not a business is permitted to open. It is for each business to assess whether they are a business required to close having considered the Regulations and guidance ...
read moreBulletin: November 2020 UPDATE
UPDATE: Government Guidance re working during the current Lock-down Following our understanding as stated within the previous GHR News E-bulletin of 6th November ’20 (see https://general-hypnotherapy-register.com/news/bulletin-november-2020/) that the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) would shortly provide further advice with regard to which businesses may stay open and which may not, we have ...
read moreBulletin: November 2020
Latest Government Guidance on working during the current Lock-down Since the pandemic began, and as far as we can determine, the Government has at no point during the many changes in advice and guidance within the various UK regions specifically stated what self-employed therapists offering a face to face service (e.g. hypnotherapists etc.) may ...
read moreBulletin: September 2020
Advice & Guidance on Returning to Work Safely For Practitioners: As the GHR is a Verifying Organisation (VO) within the Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC), it would seem prudent for us to refer to their extensive and regularly updated information at https://www.cnhc.org.uk/covid-19-advice-return-to-work-and-working-safely We appreciate that not all GHR practitioners are registered with ...
read moreCoronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Returning to Working Face-to-Face – Important Update
Returning to Working Face-to-Face – Important Update Dear Colleagues We are now able to update you on the following Government directives. These currently vary for UK’s separate regions as set out below: ENGLAND As of 4th July 2020 the following restrictions have been relaxed: The 2-metre social distancing rule has been ...
read moreCoronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Preparing for an Eventual Return to Working Face-to-Face
Dear Colleagues Although current UK Government guidance does not extend to including either specific advice or necessarily a prohibition on the provision of ‘talking therapy’ services conducted in private practice, and the GHR cannot therefore provide a definitive answer as to whether or not face-to-face therapy is permissible, our cautious view would be that ...
read moreBulletin: May 2020
Dear Colleagues We trust that you’re all staying safe and sound and remain fully in the pink during these otherwise most grey of times. We also hope that your client workload has not been too adversely affected but if it has suffered (and it may well have diminished significantly for many of you), ...
read moreCoronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Advice for Practitioners UPDATE
Dear Colleague As a consequence of the Government’s stay-at-home policy during the current crisis, we know that many of our Registrants will be finding things difficult, not only with their personal home lives but also as a consequence of the inability of their clients to physically attend therapy sessions. However, we are aware ...
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