Keeping our staff safe, focusing on our public protection role, and keeping our stakeholders and the public reassured are our main objectives during the Covid-19 pandemic

On World Social Work Day, Colum Conway of Social Work England, explains why professional regulation needs to be in a better position to provide a more responsive and proportionate approach, work collaboratively and re-focus on ‘up stream’ working

The Good Thinking Society has agreed to withdraw its challenge to the Authority’s April 2019 decision to re-accredit the Society of Homeopaths

We have published our latest performance review of the General Medical Council - the GMC continues to meet all of our Standards of Good Regulation

​Public confidence and public trust in the healthcare regulators are interlinked: without one, you probably wouldn’t have the other but how do the regulators interpret and apply ‘public confidence’ especially in relation to their fitness to practise processes?

The Accredited Registers Collaborative have issued a joint statement on behalf of all Accredited Registers to help support their registrants during the current outbreak of COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

Amy Hopwood, Policy Manager at CQC writes about the organisational duty of candour: the difference between it and the professional duty of candour; the barriers that can hinder both duties; & CQC's plans for launching new guidance in the spring

We have just published our most recent performance review for the GPhC - for this review, it has met 20 out of 24 of our Standards of Good Regulation

Following careful assessment, the Authority has renewed the Society of Homeopaths’ accreditation - this is subject to it meeting a Condition

A guest blog from Peter Walsh questions what difference the duty of candour has made, but he remains hopeful that, if fully embraced by regulators and others, it will lead to the biggest and most overdue advance in patients’ rights and patient safety