Mr. Aidan Tumbleton:

The Chair has touched on a good point. People often ask why we do not regulate by scope of practice but the reality is that many CORU professions, and medical professions generally, have overlapping scopes of practice, which makes that simply not possible. In addition, the scope of practice in emerging professions will develop and change over time, often quite rapidly. We protect by title because it is what we can hang the regulation on. We then rely on public information campaigns and customer empowerment. We tell people that these professions are regulated and that they should check the register. That is what we rely on.