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In our annual report for 2017/18, we take the opportunity to look back at what has been achieved in professional regulation over the last 10 years. We also provide our usual overview of how well the regulators and accredited registers we oversee have been performing. You can read the full report, a shorter highlights report, or key facts and stats for our work reviewing the regulators, improving regulation and accrediting registers.
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We have launched our blog. Find out more about our insights into professional regulation.
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We have published policy advice commissioned by the Scottish Government looking at the implications if a healthcare occupation is regulated in fewer than all four UK countries. We have published research we commissioned looking at Sexual behaviours between health and care practitioners: where does the boundary lie?
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We have published our response to the Government's consultation on regulatory reform 'Promoting professionalism, reforming regulation'. Find out what we have to say in our response.
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Our 2018 Academic and Research Conference took place on 8-9 March. More than 100 academics, policy makers, regulators and others came together to focus on fitness to practise. The conference was organised in collaboration with Professor Tim David from the University of Manchester. Watch the highlights or you can read through the presentations here.
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We have now published Right-touch reform. The third in our series of publications about the need for regulatory reform which should assist people responding to the government consultation on reform of professional regulation. Our previous two publications are: Regulation rethought and Rethinking regulation. We also published our paper on assessing the risk of harm Right touch assurance - a methodology for assessing and assuring occupational risk of harm.
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We have published ground-breaking research funded by us and led by Professor Rosalind Searle. By analysing thousands of fitness to practise determinations from our database, Professor Searle and her team identify three types of perpetrators of professional misconduct and provide further insights into sexual misconduct and dishonesty. Find out more in Bad apples? Bad barrels? Or bad cellars? Antecedents and processes of professional misconduct in UK health and social care.