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For all concerned UK-based occupational therapists, be informed that due to an unfortunate postal disruption, the Health Professions Council has allowed an additional ‘grace period’ for the submission of renewal applications. Quoted below is the original announcement from the HPC.

Posted: 15/10/2007 - 17:00

Due to postal disruption, additional ‘grace period’ for renewal applications

Due to the exceptional circumstances the postal disruption may cause to those renewing their registration, the Health Professions Council is allowing an additional ‘grace period’ for renewal applications to be received from occupational therapists and biomedical scientists.

Registrants are now being given until the dates listed below to renew their registration for the 2007/9 registration cycle:

Occupational therapists (OT) - 30 November 2007
Biomedical scientists (BS) - 17 December 2007

Registrants are ‘lapsed’ if we do not receive their completed renewal form and payment by the relevant cut-off (lapsing) date. This means that their name will no longer appear on the HPC Register and they will need to complete a readmission form to come back onto it. Registrants who submit their forms within one month of being lapsed will not have to incur a re-admission fee and will only have to pay their renewal fee (covering their two-year cycle). Registrants who submit their forms after one month will be required to pay the re-admission fee of £110 in addition to their standard renewal fee.

For more information about renewals please visit http://www.hpc-uk.org/registrants/renew/. You can email the UK registration department on registration@hpc-uk.org. Alternatively you can phone 0845 300 4472, or if calling from outside the UK +44 207 840 9802

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The World Psychiatric Association International Congress 2007 will be held in Melbourne, Australia on the 28th of November to the 2nd of December. This year’s theme is Working Together for Mental Health: Partnerships for Policy and Practice.

THE PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
The 2007 Congress will feature a high quality Scientific Program of global significance and regional relevance.

The Scientific Program will:
• Include papers on leading trends and research findings from a wide range of psychiatry and mental health perspectives
• Be cutting-edge, featuring the latest advances in treatment, service provision and mental health care
• Comprise an impressive line up of international speakers and opinion leaders from across the mental health arena

The Scientific Program will cover a range of topics and themes relevant to all involved in mental health.

The perspectives and experiences of practising clinicians, consumers, carers, indigenous community, Asia and Australasia, will be interwoven through the program.

The key streams under the theme Working Together for Mental Health: Partnerships for Policy and Practice are (in alphabetical order):

• Addiction Psychiatry
• Advances in the Management of Psychosis and Mood Disorders
• Biological Psychiatry/Psychopharmacology
• Community Linkages
• Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Nursing
• Old Age Psychiatry
• Policy Development
• Primary Care and Mental Health
• Psychiatry and Physical Illness
• Psychology
• Regional and Cross Cultural Collaboration
• Service Models: Evidence and Implementation
• Other: eg. Psychotherapy, Suicide, Anxiety Disorder

The Scientific Program offered at this Congress will be the highlight of 2007 for all those involved in mental health policy and clinical practice.

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For those who have applied or are applying for the assessment of their credentials with the Council of Occupational Therapists Registration Boards (COTRB) Inc., please take note of the five-year effectivity of your eligibility from the time your Assessment letter has been issued to you. The announcement from COTRB is as follows:

At the meeting of the Overseas Qualifications Assessment Committee held on 12 October 2007 it was determined that the COTRB Assessment shall be valid for a period of five (5) years from the date of issue of the Assessment Letter.

Therefore, any persons wishing to utilise the COTRB Assessment Letter for the purposes of migration, registration, association membership etc. would need to do so within five (5) years of the assessment being completed. After this time it will be necessary for persons to once again undertake the Stage I Desk Top Audit.

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