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Assessment and Accreditation of Medical and Health Institutions:
For the purposes of ensuring fair competition among medical and health institutions and to maintain
quality, the Council shall empanel competent and independent bodies to perform the functions of
assessment and accreditation in conformity with the norms that may be prescribed by the Council.
Such process must be evaluated every two years for compliance and due diligence by the empanelled
bodies and their empanelment reviewed on such evaluation.
Any empanelment, assessment, accreditation, review and the procedure and processes related thereto
shall be considered public document and should be available, electronically or otherwise, for public
access
Constitution of Committees:
Committees, which may be standing or adhoc in nature, may be constituted by the Council to fulfil
specific functions as deemed necessary by the Council.
State/RegionalAdministrativeOffices:
There may be established State or Regional Level Administrative Offices of the National Council,
which shall act as the information, coordination and liaison office of the Council in such State or the
Region as the casemay be.
The State Registrations andEthics Board:
The Task Force is of the opinion that with the repeal of the central legislations regulating the medical
and allied health fields their state level councils also need restricting and the linkage between the
National Council and the State Level Bodies needs to be outlined. In this regard there may be
constituted a Registration and Ethics Board for each Department of health sciences in every State,
which shall replace the existing State Councils (constituted under the statute of respective state
legislature).
Each of such Board shall maintain, in the manner prescribed by the National Council, a state live
electronic registers of the professional, which shall be linked to the National Register. The State Board
shall be responsible to take cognizance and inquire into any professional misconduct and initiate
appropriate disciplinary action against such misconduct in accordance with the guidelines and
procedures laid by the National Council.
The State Registrations andEthics Board shall comprise of:
i. APresident,
ii. AVice-President
iii. Not less than ten, and not more than such number of members, as may be prescribed and
three of whom shall be women.
iv. ANominee of the State Government.
The President, Vice-President and the Members, except for the one member to be nominated by the
State Government, shall be elected from amongst the registered members of that Department in that
state.
NEWS LETTER - INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSIOTHERAPISTS - NOV.. 2010
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