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PROTECTION OF THE TITLE OF DOCTOR

Early day motion 1635, tabled 10 June 2009 by Lord Mann (Labour). Signed by 12 members.

That this House notes the title of doctor is not a protected title; further notes that practitioners of complementary medicine have an important role in health care, but believes that the title doctor implies a background in scientific orthodox medicine; further believes that the use of the term doctor by practitioners of complementary medicine is misleading and confusing; further believes that the array of other qualifications a trained orthodox doctor may hold can also be confusing; and calls on the Government either to protect the title of doctor for British Medical Association registered and suitably qualified practitioners, or to introduce a simple and popularly recognisable scheme that will distinguish between different traditions and levels of scientific evidence behind medicine.

Signatures by party: Labour 10, Liberal Democrat 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.