Comments on: Prince Charles’ Ofquack is a Dead Duck

By: Margaret Coats to join Zombie Regulator, Ofquack. | The Quackometer

Margaret Coats to join Zombie Regulator, Ofquack. | The Quackometer — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:33:25 +0000

[...] predicted it would fail as such practitioners would not allow a third party to dictate what claims they could [...]

By: The Society of Homeopaths: The Failure of Self Regulation | The Quackometer

The Society of Homeopaths: The Failure of Self Regulation | The Quackometer — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:02:00 +0000

[...] The government has set up the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (better know as Ofquack). This has failed for a number of reasons. Firstly, few alternative medicine groups have wanted to [...]

By: Michael O'Sullivan

Michael O'Sullivan — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:06:04 +0000

Interesting that a recent search n Google (26/11/2010) against the key word Ofquack showed this on number one:

About CNHC : Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council
Welcome to the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC)
http://www.cnhc.org.uk/ – Cached – Similar

Maybe Mr Google is more intelligent that we thought!!!

By: Andy Burman Resigns From Ofquack | The Quackometer

Andy Burman Resigns From Ofquack | The Quackometer — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:02:17 +0000

[...] Andy Burman, Chief Executive of the British Dietetic Association, appears to have resigned his post from the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (Ofquack). [...]

By: Ofquack’s Toothless Squawk | The Quackometer

Ofquack’s Toothless Squawk | The Quackometer — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:44:17 +0000

[...] reported on the newly emerging regulator’s woes this time last year when I described it as a dead duck. The CNHC had grand ambitions to be the one-stop-shop regulator for all complementary therapists [...]

By: Auricular Acupuncture: A Word in Your Foetus Like… | The Quackometer

Auricular Acupuncture: A Word in Your Foetus Like… | The Quackometer — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:55:07 +0000

[...] by the Department of Health to set ways of regulating CAM sellers. The result has been the moribund Ofquack: the Complementary and Natural Healthcare [...]

By: k Coupland

k Coupland — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:54:31 +0000

what a shame this isn’t being done properly (and also a shame that this article is being used to have dig at alternative practitioners). Anybody who has one to one physical medical or therapeutic contact with vulnerable individuals needs to be registered.
My role for the police is to monitor sex offenders many of whom seek professions which allow them to furtehr their deviations and something like massage is ideal. There is no mandatory regulation and once they have served their sentence they can set up again, self employed and unregulated and there is no way to stop them. For people in this position of trust with vulnerable people to have them unregistered is non sesical and dangerous.

By: Ofquack to regulate herbal medicine? « gimpy’s blog

Ofquack to regulate herbal medicine? « gimpy’s blog — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:51:14 +0000

[...] CNHC was set up under the aegis of Prince Charles’ Foundation for Integrated Health (FIH) to be a self-regulatory body f… now it is one that is not prepared to regulate. However this is not unexpected. Organisations [...]

By: Police Investigate The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health | The Quackometer

Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:47:10 +0000

[...] one-sidedness, the government appears to listen to the Foundation. It gave them £900,000 to set up Ofquack, the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (www.ofquack.org.uk)– the quango charged with [...]

By: Protecting future ‘Baby Glorias’ from Homeopathic Beliefs | The Quackometer

Protecting future ‘Baby Glorias’ from Homeopathic Beliefs | The Quackometer — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:16:21 +0000

[...] lots of money into a new organisation called the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (Ofquack) that claims its primary goal is to “protect the public by means of regulating practitioners on a [...]