Professional Standards Authority: Consultation on reviewing our Standards (deadline 5pm 8 May 2025)

Summary

The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) are reviewing their Standards of Good Regulation and Standards for Accredited Registers to ensure they effectively protect the public and uphold professional standards.

It’s important to PSA to hear directly from a wide range of people who are involved with, and who are affected by, PSA's work, so they are seeking views from regulators, Accredited Registers (and prospective Accredited Registers), patient organisations and individuals, registrants/professionals, healthcare employers, professional bodies/unions and members of the public. 

The consultation responses received will all be considered and used to develop their approach going forward. This could be by introducing new Standards on areas such as culture, governance or duty of candour, or the removal or simplification of current standards.

The deadline for responding is 5pm on 8 May 2025.

Content

PSA has already had initial discussions with stakeholders to sense-check our proposals. Following their feedback, they have now drawn up and launched this public consultation. Their proposals for change include:

• bringing the two types of standards into alignment where it is possible
• making the standards clearer, more accessible and transparent,
• whether/how they should take an interest in organisational governance, culture and leadership given how often it emerges as a challenge in the health and social care sector, and the impact it can have on performance,
• whether measures could be introduced to remove gaps in criminal convictions checks for some health and social care practitioners, and
• whether new criteria for registers applying for accreditation will support public confidence. 

This public consultation is your opportunity to influence what we look at and how we do it when assessing regulator and voluntary register performance.