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Professional Standards Authority response to NHS Improvement's consultation on developing a patient safety strategy
These are the revised Standards of Good Regulation - rationalised and reduced following the two consultations we carried out in 2017 and 2018. We are piloting these Standards with a plan to introduce them for our 2019/20 performance review cycle
This paper sets out the progress professional regulators we oversee have made in embedding the professional duty of candour (being open and honest to a patient when something has gone wrong in their care) across the UK since 2014
How much progress has been made by the health and care regulators since 2014 to embed the professional duty of candour? Our latest report evaluates progress as well as setting out the barriers to progress and what else the regulators could do to
Our latest review of the General Osteopathic Council shows that they continue to meet all 24 of our Standards of Good Regulation