Mr. Aidan Tumbleton:

They will be required to have the same qualifications to register with CORU. It is the same profession but we have two titles that are in common usage. I think that the title of "podiatrist" was decided on just at the time of Act, and that was the third-level course and that was what it was called but, historically, the two titles have been used interchangeably. They are used interchangeably in other European jurisdictions so the UK and EU states.