July 2022
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This conference discussed the next steps for professional healthcare regulation in the UK.
It was structured as an opportunity to consider:
- issues emerging from the Government’s consultations on regulating healthcare professionals
- measures in the Health and Social Care Act aimed at simplifying and modernising the legal framework for the regulation of health and care professions
- the impact of the pandemic on the landscape for professional healthcare regulation
Overall, areas for discussion included:
- priorities - changes in the approach to regulation - placing patient safety at the heart of any new regulatory model
- reform - stakeholder perspectives on proposals - development of overarching criteria for regulation - improving regulatory efficiency
- impact - supporting regulated professionals to deliver high quality care - preparing the workforce for the challenges of the future - the role of regulatory reforms
- safety - aligning reform with patient safety policy - developing the role of regulation in promoting safe practices
- education and training - next steps for providers - quality assurance - improving professionalism, leadership and delivery of new healthcare models
- streamlining regulators - options and impact - ensuring that there is capacity for any proposed changes to be effectively delivered
- fitness to practise - assessing the future - implications and priorities for health and wellbeing
- the pandemic - how it has affected the landscape for healthcare regulation - how to safeguard positive regulatory developments in upcoming reforms
We are pleased to have been able to include keynote contributions from Charlie Massey, Chief Executive and Registrar, General Medical Council; and Alan Clamp, Chief Executive, Professional Standards Authority.
The conference was an opportunity for stakeholders to consider the issues alongside key policy officials who attended from the DHSC; MHRA; Department of Health, Ireland; and The Scottish Government.
