Sports Therapy & Remedial Therapy

The GCMT Education & Training Working Group is chaired by Jennifer Wayte (Federation of Holistic Therapists) and supported by Richard Johnson (Sports Therapy Organisation), Mel Cash (Institute of Sport & Remedial Massage), Kush Kumar (Complementary Therapists Association), Andy Fagg (Massage Training Institute).

Sports and Remedial is chaired by Richard Johnson and Mel Cash supported by Derek Turner (National Association of Massage and Manipulative Therapists), Herman Fenton (Complementary Therapists Association), Maggie Brooks Carter and Amanda Brooks (Scottish Massage Therapists Organisation) and Jennifer Wayte (Federation of Holistic Therapists)

GCMT is proud to be working closely with the self-regulatory body, the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) and has played a key role in arriving at its formation on 31st March 2008. GCMT’s efforts were acknowledged by Ben Bradshaw, the Minister of State for Health Services, welcoming massage as one of the first therapies to be regulated by the CNHC, “… this step to help the public access safer and better services”. GCMT, the recognised governing body for massage and bodyworks, is now represented on the Profession Specific Body within the CNHC which will ensure that it is the point of contact for advice, direction and development of the massage and bodywork therapies.

The Education & Training Working Group has aligned the Body Massage/Body Works core curriculum with the National Occupational Standard (NOS) and is working closely with the Sector Skills Council (SSC) for Active Leisure and Learning on the revision of the NOS for Sports Massage/therapy. Skills for Health, the SSC for the Health Sector, are reviewing all complementary therapy standards over the next 12 months and Jennifer Wayte is sitting on the Strategic Committee for the upgrading of standards.

GCMT has now developed the Infant Massage core curriculum. This curriculum is pre-requisite i.e. Practitioners should have full body massage qualification prior to taking the course.  For  healthcare professionals i.e. Nurses and midwives, social care, neo natal care etc need not have the full body massage qualification.  For this group only, it is a stand-alone qualification.