Osteopathy

EDM number 1360 in 2007-08, proposed by Kelvin Hopkins on 21/04/2008.
Categorised under the topic of Health services.

That this House congratulates the osteopathic profession on its 10 year anniversary of professional regulation; welcomes the report Working for a Safer Tomorrow carried out by Dame Carol Black; notes the report's conclusions that 175 million working days were lost to the economy in 2006 due to ill health, costing the UK economy between £103 billion and £129 billion, taking into account benefits, health care, taxes foregone, lost production, sickness absence and informal care; further notes that one in every eight people taking time off work due to illness or injury has a musculoskeletal condition; endorses the Fit to Work strategy recommendation that different forms of healthcare currently provided by the private sector could be provided by the NHS; welcomes the Fit to Work strategy's potential projected savings to the NHS of £130 million; notes the Society for Occupational Medicine's estimate that an additional 1,800 health specialists will be required to meet the report's proposals; recognises that there are over 4,000 registered osteopaths in the UK carrying out over seven million treatments per year; and urges the Government to include osteopathy as part of the Fit to Work strategy.

This motion has been signed by a total of 49 MPs.