Consultation on future health and social care regulation published

The UK government has published its latest consultation on the future of all health and social care regulators, including the GCC.

The consultation, announced in January, will consider which professions should be regulated and how the powers to introduce and remove professions from regulation might be used. These criteria will form the basis of assessing whether professions, such as chiropractic, should be brought into, or taken out of, statutory regulation.

The Department for Health and Social Care believes the current make-up of regulated and unregulated professions strikes the right balance in addressing the risks posed by health and care professionals without imposing unwarranted burdens. There are no plans at present across the four nations to either bring further professions into regulation, except those already announced, or to remove any professions from statutory regulation.

This consultation is part of a broader programme of regulatory reform of health and, in England, social care professionals. The UK government, on behalf of the four nations, has consulted on detailed proposals for reforming the legislation that underpins how regulators operate, in order to deliver better public protection through a simpler, more consistent and flexible system.

Read more about the consulatation here.