Value for Money in Health Services by Brian Abel-Smith. Heinemann, Paperback - £2.25.

Abstract

4. It is true that in the past caring professions which are regulated by law have not had to prove the value of their training for the public. However, unless there is general agreement on the training required to produce benefits to the public in measurable terms, then such precedents cannot reasonably be used to justify extension to psychotherapy, but are themselves of questionable value in protecting the public. If it is desired to proceed from the standpoint of the protection of psychotherapists rather than the public, that is a matter for the Working Party to decide, but it is not a view to which the BABP would subscribe.