We support the regulators' joint statement recognising the highly challenging conditions in which their registrants find themselves working

Peter Walsh, Chief Executive of Action against Medical Accidents (AvMa), guest blogs - setting out the key priorities AvMa would like to see as part of regulatory reform to ensure patients have a voice

The Professional Standards Authority has suspended the accreditation of the Society of Homeopaths following its failure to meet Conditions set by the Authority during 2020. The suspension is effective from today - 11 January 2021.

A guest blog from Sarah Ellson - who co-heads Fieldfisher's Regulatory team - discussing the Authority's power to appeal final fitness to practise decisions - from a legal perspective

In this blog, our Policy Manager, Daisy Blench explains why we commissioned research to explore with patients and the public their perspective on future fitness to practise where hearings are not held and encapsulates its key findings

Though we welcome the publication of this report, it makes for sombre reading and we hope that both professional & system regulation can work together to learn & ensure that changes are made to avoid a repeat of these tragic events

We have published our most recent review of the HCPC - we remain concerned about the HCPC's poor performance against the fitness to practise Standards and will work with them to implement an improvement plan

We have launched consultations on two key areas of our work: how we review the regulators and how we accredit registers - to help shape our future approach

We appealed this decision on the basis that the suspension order originally given to Dr Dighton was insufficient to protect the public and the panel had not followed guidance on appropriate sanctions

Anticipating a consultation on regulatory reform - Dinah Godfree asks the government to not just look forwards, but take a glance backwards - it's important to learn from mistakes from the past, as well as looking at more recent learning from Covid-19