The majority of the patients they treat are self-referred and they have to be prepared to treat podiatry problems or recognise the need for referral, if out of their scope of practice. they also treat patients who are referred from local general medical practitioners, and other Podiatrists for nail surgery or biomechanical assessments for off shelf and custom made Sidas orthotics.

​They regard communication between professionals as being very important, in that it can improve the patient pathway greatly i.e. tissue viability nurses.

Their knowledge base is broad and is based on extensive experience and Continued Professional Development. They are also annotated on the HCPC register as being competent in the use of local anaesthetics.

They do have an interest in orthotic devices of a particular type that they find of value and of benefit to a number of our patients. They have developed what they regard as a specialised expertise in the use of off the shelf and Sidas custom made devices.

 CPD activities are a mixture of learning activities relevant to their current and future practice. This is demonstrated by the wide range of CPD activity listed. The reason for the wide choice of learning activity is that they are a generalist practitioners treating patients with a wide range of conditions.  

They do not anticipate their future patient caseload will change very much from the profile they are accustomed to treating, although with verrucae treatments and nail care no longer being provided by the NHS, these types of treatments do fall to private sector. They currently treat with chemical, liquid nitrogen and laser therapy for verrucae treatment.

Their Continual Professional Development has therefore concentrated on the following activity over the past years.

Attending annual life support training (CPR) and analphylaxis.

• Local anesthesia update course.  

• Pharmacology / Neurological update course.

• Tissue Viability.

• Orthotic Update course       

• Bespoke Orthotics Sidas

• Dermatology lower limb

• Verruca Therapy       

• Peripheral Arterial Disease.

• Rheumatology.

• Reading professional journals and completing the learning outcome.

Pull out section of the CPD enclosures on “podiatry now”.

• Network with colleagues to discuss clinical issues.

• Mentoring younger colleagues in the practice.