Event details
This Westminster Health conference will discuss the next steps for professional healthcare regulation in the UK.
It is being 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 include:
- 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 & training - next steps for providers ◦ quality assurance ◦ improving professionalism, leadership & delivery of new healthcare models.
- streamlining regulators - options & 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 & wellbeing.
- the pandemic - how it has affected the landscape for healthcare regulation ◦ how to safeguard positive regulatory developments in upcoming reforms.
Keynote contributions from Charlie Massey, Chief Executive and Registrar, General Medical Council; and Alan Clamp, Chief Executive, Professional Standards Authority. Patient Safety Learning's Helen Hughes will be one of the speakers.