Expert Group Criteria for the recognition of healthy footwear

Footwear is likely to be regarded as an important consideration in the clinical management of many foot disorders, and the development of key criteria for the assessment of footwear by experts from the footwear industry together with expert podiatrists should enable the construction of a widely applicable tool in this evaluation. The study reported in this paper is drawn from work conducted in the UK, and the findings have broad clinical relevance across clinical professions. An initial UK context to the study design is provided, although it is hoped the content will have wider, less ethnocentric, appeal. Government funded podiatry provision in the UK: Emergent issues for the NHS