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Massaging feet and your insurance policy

Discussion in 'United Kingdom' started by Lovefeet, Oct 4, 2012.

  1. Lovefeet

    Lovefeet Banned


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    Not sure if other folk have read the small print of their Public Liability Insurance, but in the policy that I have, it states you are only covered by insurance for the Podiatry work that you trained to do......

    When I did my Podiatry training at Uni, we had this excellent visiting clinical Podiatrist to help out at our weekly clinical training sessions (he had been trained at our Uni and specialised in BMX and was in PP), and he demonstrated to me, how to massage feet, post treatment.

    The thing is, it was never demonstrated by any of our usual NHS clincicians (who were excellent) and it was never something we had a lesson on in the "classroom". So the thing is, obviously I am not covered by insurance to "massage" my patients feet post treatment.

    So, folk might want to double check the small print of their Public Liability Insurance before massaging their patients feet.

    This brings me to another point, does anyone know of any 1 - 2 day courses in foot massage, that are Accredited and can be used as evidence of knowledge and experience, in case it is required in the future by the insurance companies.

    Thanks :D
     
  2. Lab Guy

    Lab Guy Well-Known Member

    I would think that if you were that concerned, that you could contact them and express your concerns. I would bet that they would put in writing for you that massaging your patient's feet is within your scope of practice. Performing a knee arthroscopy may not be covered on your policy, but I am sure that massaging the feet would be.

    Steven
     
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