Registration Standards

The organisation maintains an accurate and accessible published register of all health or care practitioners, clearly indicating any restrictions on their registration. Where appropriate, this applies to businesses and premises, who are registered.

So that the public, patients, service users, employers and fellow health and care professionals can easily check whether a practitioner is qualified, registered, up-to-date, indemnified, and suitable to practise.

• The Information about registrants is accurate, accessible and easy to find.
• The public register contains only information that organisations assess as being necessary for public protection.
• Restrictions on practice are displayed clearly and are visible to anyone accessing a register entry for a practitioner.
• A system is in place for updating and quality assuring the register.

The organisation operates a transparent, proportionate, efficient and fair process to allow only suitable practitioners, and, where applicable, businesses or premises to join, remain on, and return to its register.

So that everyone can understand the process for registering with an organisation and have confidence that the process operates fairly, ensuring that only suitable practitioners join the register. 

• Only people with suitable qualifications, skills and knowledge and who are professionally suitable can register with an organisation.
• Only businesses/premises that meet regulators’ requirements are on the register.
• Everyone can know what is required to register with an organisation, including how to make an appeal, and the process is easy to understand.
• The process for registering with an organisation, and forappealing registration decisions, is fair, proportionate and efficient.
• Decisions about registration and appeals are clearly explained.

The organisation takes proportionate action in response to the risk of people misleading the public about their registration status.

So that the risk of harm resulting from receiving treatment or services from people who lack the qualifications or skills to practise safely is reduced.

• The organisation has effective and published processes in place to deal with people who misrepresent their registration status.
• The approach taken to managing the risks posed by people misrepresenting their registration status is proportionate, agile and able to adapt to changing and emerging risks.
   

The organisation has proportionate requirements and processes in place to assure that registrants maintain their skills and continue to be suitable to practice.

So that health and care practitioners’ skills and competencies continue to be updated and developed throughout their careers in order that they can deliver safe and effective care. So that, through appropriate checks, only professionally suitable practitioners are on the register.

• The assurance processes that organisations have in place about continued practice competence and suitability are proportionate, fair, and align with best practice.
• The organisation is clear about the purpose of the requirements it places on registrants to assure their ongoing competence and suitability, and supports them to meet the requirements.
• Registrants, employers and the public are clear about what must be done to maintain registration.
• The organisation’s assurance requirements about continued practice competence and suitability are risk-based and targeted towards public protection.