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Our policy work

To complement our oversight role, our Policy work highlights and seeks to address broad issues affecting professional regulation and registration. This way, we can use the intelligence gleaned from our oversight functions to further understanding of how professional regulation could better protect the public.  

 

 

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Our policy initiatives

Our policy work is devoloped through engagement with professional regulators, accredited registers, patients and service users, and any other affected groups. We commission research, engage with charities, patient and service user groups, or consult with our broader stakeholder network. We can also run public consultations on significant policy questions or publications to ensure diverse viewpoints inform our policy interests and recommendations. 

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Artificial Intelligence and professional regulation

Artificial Intelligence is impacting professional regulation as well as the wider health and care sector. Read updates on how the PSA is working with other regulators to explore the opportunities and risks that AI presents for public protection. It highlights our publications, consultation responses and future areas of focus.

Find out more about our work on AI and regulation
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Safer care for all - solutions from professional regulation and beyond

We published this report in 2022. It examined the state of professional health and care regulation in the UK, but went beyond that in identifying and proposing solutions to some of the huge challenges in health and social care today. Four main themes were considered in the report: tackling inequalities in health and social care regulation; keeping pace with changes in how care is funded and delivered; facing up to the workforce crisis and regulation's future role; and accountability, fear and public safety.

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Our research

We believe that regulation should be used only when it is the most effective means of protecting the...

Our consultations

We consult the public about some of our work. For example, when we develop standards or make changes...