The new Standards of Good Regulation

We now have a revised set of 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.

How do we use the Standards of Good Regulation?

We review the work of the nine health and care regulators. They ‘register’ health and care professionals working in occupations that Parliament has said must be regulated. We review each regulator on a 12-month rolling basis and we use the Standards of Good Regulation as a benchmark to assess their performance. We use the Standards to help the regulators improve their performance. Find out more about our performance review process in this infographic.

What is the difference between the new and old Standards?

The new Standards continue to measure the regulators' four core functions: guidance and standards, education and training, registration, and fitness to practise. However, the new Standards have been reduced and rationalised. We now have 18 Standards instead of 24. We have also introduced a set of General Standards to take out some of the duplication that was present in the 24 Standards. We also want to encourage more flexibility and agility in the regulators so some of the wording in the new Standards is less prescriptive.

How are the regulators meeting the Standards?

You can find out more about how the regulators have been meeting our Standards in our most recent key stats visual. Or you can read individual performance reviews for each the regulators - the latest ones are available in our performance review section.