We are currently working on:

Regulators

Performance reviews are carried out throughout the year and the reports are published as and when each report is finalised. The schedule for 2018/19 gives deadlines for sharing your experience about each regulator and when their review will start. The deadline for the General Optical Council's next review is 20 September 2019 and the deadline for the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland's next review is 4 October 2019 - so please get in touch if you would like to share your feedback.

Our most recent performance review published is for the Health and Care Professions Council. Find out how many of our Standards  they have met - you can read the full report or see a summary in our snapshot.

Piloting the new Standards of Good Regulation

Following the two consultations we ran, our Board agreed the revised Standards in November 2018. We are now ready to pilot them. During the pilot phase, the current Standards will still be in use. The revised Standards of Good Regulation have been rationalised and reduced. The plan now is to pilot these Standards and introduce them for our 2019/20 performance review cycle. Find out more about the revised Standards and the pilot.

NMC Lessons Learned Review

We have now published our lessons learned Review looking at how the NMC handled concerns about midwives' fitness to practise at Furness General Hospital. The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care asked us to carry out this review in May 2017. The terms of reference are available here.

Accredited Registers

The Society of Homeopaths has indicated its intent to renew accreditation. Please Share Your Experience of the Society by 22 October 2019.

The British Association of Sport Rehabilitators and Trainers (BASRaT) has indicated its intent to renew accreditation. Please Share Your Experience of BASRaT by 14 October 2019.

The Academy for Healthcare Science (AHCS) has indicated its intent to renew accreditation. Please Share Your Experience of the AHCS by 3 October 2019.

The The British Association of Play Therapists (BAPT) has indicated its intent to renew accreditation. Please Share Your Experience of the BAPT by 26 September 2019.

Our joint report with the Royal Society for Public Health – Untapped Resources: Accredited Registers in the Wider Workforce – looks at how nearly 80,000 health professionals on accredited registers can make a significant contribution to promoting and protecting the public's health.

We are running a social media campaign to raise awareness about checking that practitioners who provide complementary therapies are on accredited registers. Take a look at our 8 things to check before having complementary therapy.

Policy and research

Hot topics 

We are currently focusing our research on:

• Dishonesty
• Sexual misconduct
• Professional identity
• Duty of candour
• Regulatory reform
• Fitness to practise

Our most recent research published looks at progress made by the professional regulators to embed the professional duty of candour in their registrants. Read more about it in Telling patients the truth when something goes wrong or see a summary of key findings in this infographic.

Have you read our latest blogs?

Our most recent publications include

• The role of patients and service users in ensuring the safety of the care they receive
• How is public confidence maintained when fitness to practise decisions are made
• Developing a methodology to assess the consistency of fitness to practise outcomes 2019
• From public hearings to consensual disposal - insights from the decision-making literature