Jul 10, 2018
The engineers and geoscientists of British Columbia asked us to review their governance and legislation - providing us with the opportunity to work outside health and care, to help build learning and understanding across professional regulators internationally
Jul 09, 2018
In our 2017/18 annual report, we take the opportunity to look back, charting key moments in the development of the regulatory framework underlining why reform is necessary
Jul 04, 2018
Our latest performance review acknowledges the positive way in which the HCPC has engaged with the concerns we raised in our previous review and the actions it is taking to address those concerns but there is not enough evidence of sustained improvement for us to say it has met the Standards it failed last time
Jun 28, 2018
What are the implications for policy-makers, the public, and practitioners if a health or care occupation is regulated in one (or more) countries of the UK but not all of them? The Scottish Government commissioned the Authority to provide advice
Jun 21, 2018
We are inviting tenders to replace our existing Section 29 database - an integral part of work in reviewing regulators' final fitness to practise decision
Jun 14, 2018
We have just launched our second consultation on reviewing the Standards of Good Regulation. In this consultation we are looking for feedback on the detailed proposals, including on the new Standards and the evidence we will be asking regulators to provide
Jun 04, 2018
We have now published the NMC's annual performance review for 2016/17 and are pleased to report a continued improvement, however we still have concerns about how the NMC deals with families and patients going through the fitness to practise process
May 16, 2018
The review published today concludes that, although the NMC's performance as a regulator is improving, it continues to make some mistakes and must develop a more respectful and open culture
May 09, 2018
We believe that sexual misconduct between health and care practitioners should be taken seriously – it does potentially impact patient safety. However, we observed that it is not always treated as seriously in regulators' final fitness to practise decisions. We wanted to find out if our thinking was out-of-step so we commissioned research to find out what professionals and the public think
May 01, 2018
The Authority appealed against a decision by a Nursing and Midwifery Council panel in respect of a nurse working at a hospital for adults with a learning disability - we have
now reached agreement with the NMC on Winterbourne View that the case be remitted to an NMC panel to reconsider