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Belgian Chiropractors’ Union - Newsletter December 2017 Page 1 of 7
ECU General Council On the 3rd-4th of November the ECU General Council meeting took place in Helsinki (for the new members: this is a biannual meeting of the presidents of the national associations together with the executive council of the ECU).
As usual the agenda was very busy with quite a few financial requests to discuss and decisions to make. By far the most important item on the agenda however was the ratification of the new council of the European Academy of Chiropractic of which our VP Tom Michielsen became the chairman! We would like to congratulate Tom with this important and challenging position and are very happy he is maintaining his position as VP of the BCU at the same time.
Tom will explain the vision and focus of the new EAC council during his presentation at our next General Assembly meeting on 25th February 2018.
Dear colleagues, Geppers and students, The first snow has fallen and the festive season is upon us. Before we all sign off work to indulge in the many Christmas delights, we wanted to send you an overview of our past and future activities. It has been a very interesting and active year for the BCU and 2018 promises to be equally exciting. On behalf of the BCU Council I would like to wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Bart Vandendries, President BCU
CHIRO NEWS Belgian Chiropractors’ Union Newsletter – December 2017
The ECU General Council meeting took place in Helsinki on 3-4 November 2017.
In This Issue
ECU General Council
Week of the Back
Research Fund Update
GEP News
VAT Update
CPD Topics
Care Response
UCLL Student Project
Belgian Chiropractors’ Union - Newsletter December 2017 Page 2 of 7
CPD Points Final Year
What is the deadline for collecting points? You have only 1 more year to go to get to your 150 points (30
points per year). At the end of 2018, the first 5 years come to an
end (2014-2018). From that year on, each year will be the endpoint
of another 5 year cycle (2015-2019). Your CPD form clearly shows
where you are with your points. It is your own responsibility to
update your online folder in the One Drive.
At the end of this period, we will start publishing the seals on the
BCU website next to your name. Those who are not ok will receive
a red mark instead, so it is very important to use this last year to
get your CPD portfolio in order.
What happens to my Care Quality seal? In January, your CPD folder will be consulted. If ok, we will change
the year on your seal from 2017 to 2018. For most of you, this
change will be automatically visible on your own website. We will
test this and send a new seal to those members were the change is
not coming through (this might be related to some plugins installed
on your website). You will need to reinstall the new seal.
What if I don’t have a seal yet? Get your CPD folder up to date and send Chantal a mail letting us
now that it is ready for inspection. When approved for 120 points,
you will receive the seal.
‘Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will
make you great.’ (George Bernard Shaw)
Week of the Back 16-20 October 2017
In 2017 we decided to focus on cycling. Being
chiropractors we obviously looked at the
subject from a special point of view and our
focus was on posture and bike position in the
prevention of back pain.
We developed a new brochure (FIETSEN –
PREVENTIE VAN RUGKLACHTEN; LE VÉLO
POUR PRÉVENIR LES DOULEURS DE DOS) and
added a new page to our Straighten Up
website with lots of information, warming-
up and cooling-down exercises and video
messages from sports people who were
supporting our incentive. If you haven’t seen
it yet, have a look at
http://www.straightenup.be/nl/fiets-je-fit/ or
http://www.straightenup.be/fr/vite-a-velo/
In addition to this we launched a press
release and presented our new brochure to
some interested journalists and this brought
quite a lot of media response (radio
interviews, articles in newspapers and
magazines). For more info see
http://www.chiropraxie.org/nl/nieuws/week
vanderug/ and
http://www.chiropraxie.org/fr/nouvelles/las
emainedudos/
The video messages were also posted on
facebook - we had 2200 'likes' and some
200.000 persons received them in their
Facebook accounts!
Many thanks to all those who contributed in
one way or another to making this year’s
Week of the Back yet another successful
event!
The Sanoma Magazines event in Mechelen
Belgian Chiropractors’ Union - Newsletter December 2017 Page 3 of 7
Go Abroad Fair Expo Ghent – the facts
Date:
- Sunday 26th November
Audience:
- General public and specifically students looking to study abroad
Objective:
- Inform the students (and their parents) - Promote chiropractic
Sponsors for the BCU:
- AECC - IFEC - South Wales University
The BCU has been promoting chiropractic studies at the Go Abroad Fair in Ghent
Go Abroad Fair - 26 November The first edition of this fair attracted 1047 visitors in 1 day and Bert, Michael, Katrien and Anne (who were so kind to represent the BCU) were enthusiastic about the level of interest shown in chiropractic.
Next to getting students thinking about studying chiropractic, this fair definitely also raised chiropractic awareness in Belgium.
Thank you to the 2017 crew and we hope to repeat this in 2018!
Sports chiropractic seminar – 23 September We were pleased having 37 participants for the Sports chiropractic seminar on extremity adjusting with Atle Aare
and Atle Thorstensen on the 23rd of September. The Parker Hotel at Brussels Airport was an ideal location with
parking, excellent facilities and catering as well as being conveniently central in Belgium.
Based on the feedback from the attendees the seminar overall was rated 4.75/5. There were positive remarks
especially on venue, quality of hands-on sessions and the instructors. Unique to this seminar were 2 real patients
that were treated "on stage". I can tell you that they both are improved in function and out of pain now. The
weaknesses of this seminar according to the feedback were too much content for one day and the time lost of
moving everyone from one place to another. Overall the seminar was well-organised, well attended and chiropractic
skills were learned or refreshed. Hopefully all of this for the benefit of the patient and the profession.
Belgian Chiropractors’ Union - Newsletter December 2017 Page 4 of 7
VAT Update
The Belgian government voted a new law in January 2016 which
imposes VAT on chiropractic treatments, but up until today,
chiropractors in Belgium are exempted from VAT on the basis of an
administrative exemption which we have since 1992.
We started a procedure at the constitutional court in June 2016
against this new law and just a few months ago this case was
referred to the European court of justice, this procedure will take
another 2,5 years. The administrative exemption is still active.
Our lawyer will be present at our General Assembly on Sunday 25th
February 2018 to give a presentation on our VAT situation and
court case and all your questions will be answered, so make sure
you don’t miss this opportunity.
BCU Research Fund
The BCU research council has approved its first grant. A grant of
€ 15.000 will be given to Francesca Wuytack. Francesca is a Belgian
graduate from AECC currently living in Ireland and doing a post-doc
at Trinity University.
The title of her project is called: ‘Development of a Core Outcome
Set (COS) for Pelvic Girdle Pain; A systematic review, qualitative
interviews and Delphi consensus study.’
The BCU council wishes to thank Luc Ailliet and Karl Devriese for
their time and expert opinion. We would also like to thank all the
members of the BCU for this important step forward in our
profession. Your financial support to research makes things like this
possible and helps our colleagues on their path to get to important
university positions. This moves our profession forward!
Care Response Project In order to improve our services it is
important to get feedback from our
patients.
A Chiropractic Practice Assessment Questionnaire has been developed by the Royal College of Chiropractors as a means to assess standards within chiropractic clinics. Care Response is a free and pragmatic
system to help practices gather and report
clinical outcome and patient satisfaction
information with minimal work from
practice staff. Care Response is a cloud
based service, there is no software to
install.
Patients can choose to complete
questionnaires on-line, on paper forms or
using tablet computers such as an iPad.
Assessments may be given out or sent by
email at any time. For those with email
addresses outcomes are requested
automatically.
The BCU is in the process of translating
everything into Dutch and French and we
are looking to implement this tool by
spring 2018.
A detailed presentation on this project will
be given by Tom Michielsen at our General
Assembly on 25th February 2018.
Belgian Chiropractors’ Union - Newsletter December 2017 Page 5 of 7
KCE pathway
The KCE is an independent research centre
that provides scientific advice on topics
related to health care. The topics are
generally asked for by the public
authorities (Minister / Ministry of Public
Health, NIHDI), universities, professional
associations, etc.
In May 2017 they published a clinical
guideline for the treatment of back pain,
based on the latest scientific evidence.
Among the expert panel of this KCE
project, the BCU was represented by Luc
Ailliet.
Now they have taken this another step
further by developing a clinical pathway
for low back pain and radicular pain. This
pathway is like a step-by-step procedure
that needs to be followed and will
ultimately come up with the best possible
treatment for the patient.
In order to make this as user-friendly as
possible, the KCE offers an interactive,
online tool (see http://lagerugpijn.kce.be/
and http://lombalgie.kce.be/).
It is the first time in Belgium that a
pathway of care is developed in
cooperation with the Spine Society of
Belgium and with representatives of GP’s,
physiotherapists, chiropractors,
osteopaths, physical medicine specialists,
orthopaedic and neurosurgeons,
anaesthesiologists and psychologists.
,
GEP/Student Affairs News The gep committee is very pleased to announce that all 3
candidates passed the gep exam in 2017. We will be swearing
in Dean Crombé, Marine Le Forestier and Louis Verfaillie as
permanent members of the BCU at our general assembly in
February. Congratulations to all!
We also want to thank their coaches (Anneke Verbeeck & Carl
Van Landeghem, Véronique Claes-d'Erckenteel and Hans
Desimpele) for all their hard work during the 2016-17 gep
year.
There are 6 GEP candidates for 2016-2017 gep year: Alexis Pommerol, Alizée Maréchal, Doriane Salvet, Kiara Defrancq, Kristina Kippernes and Thomas Vanquickenborne. We wish them a successful GEP year together with their coaches: Bert Ameloot & Marien Vermeulen, Declan Murphy, Véronique Claes-d’Erckenteel, Ruben Cordonni, Heimdal Derde and Karl Devriese. We hope that all of you will support them and help them out when they phone to do observations in your office. Furthermore, we also welcomed 2 candidates with an adapted gep and without a coach: Ben Gordon and Thanh Nguyen. Good luck to all 8!
Belgian Chiropractors’ Union - Newsletter December 2017 Page 6 of 7
ECU App
During the GC meeting in Helsinki, secretary-
general Ian Beesley launched an exciting new
communications initiative which will offer
substantial opportunities for national associations
and accredited schools, as well as for the ECU per
se.
With daily news items regarding chiropractic in
Europe, research links, key dates, ECU convention
material and much more, this ECU app offers
relevant information in one place. This free ECU
app will be introduced during our General
Assembly on February 25th 2018.
If you can’t wait that long, then hurry to the
Apple/Android app store and look for ‘European
Chiropractors’ Union’ and download it for free.
Switch on the facility for ‘pushed’ messages – they
will tell you when an update is available. Enjoy!
Reimbursement Forms
We tried to collect the reimbursement forms from the
different "mutualiteiten/mutualités" on one page. If you
click on the logo, a pdf will appear which you can print for
your patients. Maybe it's useful to save this link to your
'favourites' menu on your PC?
If you have other forms which can be included, you can
send a scanned copy to Chantal.
http://www.chiropraxie.org/nl/members/mut/
Insurance Update
As most of you have noticed we are modernising our insurance contracts with AMMA in order to meet the demands
of the diversity of clinic set-ups in Belgium. This modernising will happen on two different levels.
First of all the way a clinic runs: chiropractors and chiropractic clinics have evolved in the way they set up
partnerships. All of our members are insured for mishaps in their own clinic, but things change if a chiropractor is
treating a patient in someone else's clinic. Here there might be some gaps in our current contract.
Secondly it seems that a lot of our colleagues work part-time abroad. In the past a combination of their foreign
insurance and ours was sufficient. Since we cannot guarantee full coverage of foreign insurances anymore it is
critical that we retrieve all details in order to properly insure our members.
This is why we have already sent out two questionnaires to our members in order to personalise everybody’s
contract. Since we still haven’t received answers from everybody, we will send out this questionnaire once more
during the holidays. If you haven’t answered yet please do so before 12th January 2018. After that your answer will
not be processed.
In the future all changes in clinic set-up (i.e. hiring of new colleagues, working abroad) should be communicated to
us so our insurance covers everything.
Lastly we need to keep track of all GEP coaches, they will need an extra insurance which will be paid out of the
association’s accounts.
Belgian Chiropractors’ Union - Newsletter December 2017 Page 7 of 7
DID YOU KNOW?
-The University of Wales
welcomed the two first
Belgian students this year:
William Peirelinck and
Maarten Vis.
- As a result of the successful
Week of the Back 2017 the
BCU Facebook page now has
more than 1000 followers!
- Since the Go Abroad Fair in
November we have already
had 5 enquiries from
students who are interested
in studying chiropractic.
- The BCU now has 122
members and growing…
- 8 gep candidates in one
year is a new record!
BCU Secretariat:
Staatsbaan 330
B-3210 Lubbeek
T: 09 221 76 58
W: www.chiropraxie.org
Opening hours secretariat: Tuesday
& Thursday from 14.30-18.30 hrs.
Upcoming Events
Mechanics @ Work Symposium 9-10 February 2018 A symposium targeted at chiropractors and podiatrists, featuring
first class speakers David Leaf (chiropractor) and David Dunning
(podiatrist), this event is one not to be missed.
As well as exploring the common ground for chiropractors and
podiatrists, the symposium will also focus on the modern sporting
context touching on the causes of injury, injury prevention and the
role of the medical team as a whole.
The location is the Parker Hotel Brussels Airport and if you need any
extra information just send a mail to [email protected]. Early
Bird rates are valid until 1/1/2018 so register now!
General Assembly Sunday 25 February 2018 The 2018 General Assembly will take place on Sunday 25th February
2018 at the Thon Hotel Brussels City Centre (same location as last
year).
More information and the agenda will follow later but save this
date! We hope to see all of you there as we have quite a few
interesting and new topics to present.
ECU Convention in Budapest 25-27 May 2018
The ECU Convention in 2018 promises to be a lively event in the
amazing city of Budapest. Interesting lectures, workshops and
socials. The perfect opportunity to create conversations and join in
conversations about the future of the profession.
Chiropractic integration in Sports is one of the many topics on the
agenda and speakers include Greg Kawchuk, Carlo Ammendolia,
Richard Brown and Bianca Zietsman. The theme is ‘Chiropractic and
the 7 ages of man’.
For the first time, the ECU will introduce ‘ECU talks’ in analogy with
TED talks: a sequence of lively short presentations of good speakers
with a clear message. Not to be missed!
Details about the Convention and the registration procedure can be
found on the ECU website: http://ecu2018.com//