We are pleased to announce that Antony Townsend has been appointed as our Acting Chair, following the recent departure of Dame Glenys Stacey - Antony will take up this position on 1 September 2020

The Authority has reluctantly accepted Dame Glenys Stacey's resignation as our Chair to take on the role of acting Chief Regulator of Ofqual - enabling her to focus all her efforts on her role with the exams regulator at this time

In this guest blog, Professor Alison Bullock and Julie Browne from Cardiff University explain more about why we asked them to undertake a review of research into professional regulation and what it has revealed.

The Authority has published the outcome report of its in-year review of the Society of Homeopaths - this follows an investigation of concerns raised in June 2020 about social media posts by the Society’s then Safeguarding Lead

We wanted to explore with patients and the public their perspective on future fitness to practise processes where hearings are not held, including how patients, the public and carers would wish to be involved in the likely future model, and views on oversight of the new arrangements

A guest blog from Ann Gallagher, author of Slow Ethics and the Art of Care, looks at how Covid-19 has made ethics mainstream and how doing the right thing involves weighing a range of personal and professional considerations

We cannot investigate individual complaints about regulators but, In this blog we explain how we can use concerns and complaints shared with us to feed into our performance reviews and how this can help others

We commissioned a team from Cardiff University to undertake a review of research into health and care professional regulation since 2011

Statutory regulators responded to the pandemic in different ways: adapting quickly to create temporary registers to boost the workforce, or advising their registrants on the need too practise from a safe distance

We have published our annual report for 2019/20 - produced and published under different and difficult circumstances - it highlights the need for continued cooperation and collaboration for those working in the the health and care sector and welcomes reform of regulation