PSA| Healthcare regulation

Organisations we oversee

Our oversight role protects the public and improves the regulation and registration of health and care practitioners in the UK.

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What our oversight involves

Our oversight involves setting standards for regulators and Accredited Registers and assessing how...

Our work with regulators

We oversee the 10 UK healthcare professional regulators to make sure they are protecting the public...

Our work with Accredited Registers

We accredit organisations holding registers of health and care practitioners not regulated by law...

Improving regulation

We anticipate future challenges, identify safety gaps, and promote collaboration on key issues impacting health and social care though our policy and research work.

Our policy work

Our policy work covers a broad range of issues across the regulation and registration of health and...

Our research

We believe that regulation should be used only when it is the most effective means of protecting the...

Right-touch regulation

Right-touch regulation means understanding the problem before jumping to the solution. It makes sure...

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British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

The British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) is a membership organisation and a...

Association of Child Psychotherapists

The Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) is a professional body for psychoanalytic child and...

Association of Christians in Counselling and Linked Professions

The Association of Christians in Counselling and Linked Professions (ACC) is a professional body and...

Publications hub

Visit our publications hub and find all our latest research, policy papers and reports covering an array of issues. We regularly update this resource with all our latest publications.

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Advice to the General Teaching Council for Scotland on aspects of its fitness to teach process

22 May 2025

We were commissioned by GTS Scotland to carry out an independent review on aspects of their fitness...

Evaluation of our new approach to assessing regulators against our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Standard

16 May 2025

We have evaluated the first year of our new approach to assessing regulators against our EDI...

Periodic Review - Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland 2023/24

28 Mar 2025

We publish our latest performance review report for the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland

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