MEMBERSHIP
FIRST CLASS SUPPORT FOR ALL - WHY SETTLE FOR LESS?
Would You Risk Your Career Elsewhere?
The price of full membership starts from just £295 per year.
For more information on what is included, please see below....
Insurance Cover
- Public Liability and Professional Medical Malpractice (professional indemnity) insurance cover up to £6,000,000 on each and every claim (This is for each individual member and is not a Group policy).
- Product, Treatment and Liability cover up to £6,000,000 on each and every claim.
Business Support
- Advice to members on starting up and managing a private practice - including accounting and other legal ramifications.
- Advice on partnerships etc.
- Advice on employment issues.
- Networking issues both locally and nationally.
Professional Support
- Access to professional advice and assistance with professional matters.
- Advice on health and safety including decontamination of instruments, infection control and risk assessment.
- Clinical guidelines and other documentation e.g. waste disposal guidelines, minimum standards guidelines.
- Links to BCPA and special interest groups.
- Legal advice and assistance through its London Solicitors (including provision of barrister as appropriate) at any Health Professions Council (HCPC) medical malpractice hearing.
Continual Professional Development (CPD)
- Access to courses run by both The SMAE Institute and local branch networks.
- Free online CPD subject every year, which the practitioner can choose.
- Access to Local Anaesthesia, Prescription only Medicines and Nail Surgery courses.
- Access to bi-annual national conferences.
- Access to the CPD@Home range (consisting of SMAE e-learning website and DVDs).
- Access to a wide range of in-house 1, 2 and 3 day Workshops.
Other great benefits include:
- Quarterly issues of The Journal of Podiatric Medicine.
- Access to The SMAE Institute website which contains latest news, information and discussion forums for Members.
- Monthly Newsletter "Two Steps Ahead" keeping you up to date with the profession and developments, alongside CPD snippets.
- Local branch networks nationally.
- Representation on national groups.
If you have a query or wish to purchase SMAE Membership, please contact our staff who will be happy to help you:
Karen Cooper: kcooper@bcha-uk.org or 01628 621100
If you would like to join a BCPA branch then contact the chairman, Deborah Mercer, at chairman@bcpa-uk.org and she will be happy to assist.