The Authority's Chief Executive, Harry Cayton, shares his views on the Williams Review on Gross Negligence Manslaughter in Healthcare and what he thinks of its recommendations

Margaret Coats looks at the parallel systems of public protection - having experience of working in both these systems: statutory healthcare regulation and accredited registers

How does professional identity benefit patient safety? What role do regulators have on the formation of that identity? Dr Kolyva reflects on how ‘space’ and ‘place’ can contribute to developing professional identity

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

Confusing? Complicated? Has the way we regulate health and care professions in the UK passed its sell-by date? In this blog, Douglas Bilton explains why we think it is time for a change and puts forward some ideas for new ways to regulate

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

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

The Authority has today announced its decision following consideration of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service decision in the case of Dr Valerie Murphy

Call for information - help us find out what progress the regulators have made to encourage professionals to be candid with patients when things go wrong

What is professional regulation, why do we have it and how does it work? Questions we asked and answered in our first blog. In part 2, we delve deeper into the subject – exploring some of the challenges regulation faces and considering the alternatives