Regulation often goes under the radar when we talking about improving healthcare. In this blog from the PSA's Director of Policy and Communications, we discuss how regulation and a right-touch approach can help us find regulatory solutions and contribute to improving healthcare.

The consultation launched yesterday by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) on regulating NHS managers in England is an important step in supporting improvements in leadership and management in the NHS.

As the consultation acknowledges, successive inquiries have identified a need for

We are pleased to announce the appointment of two new Board members from Scotland and Northern Ireland. Ali Jarvis and Geraldine Campbell will join the PSA’s Board from 1 January 2025.

Both Ali and Geraldine will bring their years of experience and commitment to improving public service and promoting

Regulator councils need to reflect the wider public, their patients and their registrants - in this blog we explain more about our role we play advising the Privy Council about appointments to Councils

A PSA statement published when the General Medical Council started to regulator the Anaesthesia Associate and Physician Associate roles

We added 2025 dates to our webinar series focused on tackling sexual misconduct by health and care professionals. This series has now drawn to a close.

PSA/King's Business School Joint Research Conference - November 2023

On 14 November 2023, we held a joint research conference with King's Business School where we focused our discussions around "how can regulation research contribute to safer care for all?"

Around 170 delegates and speakers came

We started the new year off with our joint online seminar on tackling barriers to complaints with the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO). The event followed on the heels of an earlier in-person event with patient and service-user organisations held in Edinburgh in September 2023. 

The

In Safer care for all, we looked at the impact of inequalities on patients, service users and registrants, and on public confidence more widely. We also took a closer look at what professional regulation (and beyond) could do to tackle inequalities in health and care. More than 90 participants

Publishing our report Safer care for all was a significant milestone for us.

When we pressed the publish button, we knew were going beyond our remit. We also knew that to find solutions to the issues we highlighted, we had to. Our sub-title was 'Solutions from professional regulation and beyond', bec