Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care Strategic Plan for 2026-29

Summary

The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA) has launched its Strategic Plan for 2026-29, setting out how it will encourage a more preventative approach to regulation through delivery of its statutory duties to help meet the challenges of today’s rapidly changing health and social care landscape.

At its heart, the plan reaffirms the PSA’s unwavering commitment to protecting the public. It recognises that regulation can best support safe, effective care when it is targeted, proportionate and preventative, and when it works as part of a wider safety and quality system.

Content

PSA's strategic plan identifies five strategic themes around their work:

• oversight
• prevention
• reform
• governance
• collaboration.

The plan contains three strategic aims:

• delivering highly effective oversight of regulation and registration
• driving continuous improvement across regulators and Accredited Registers
• working with others to make the overall system more cohesive, supportive and preventative.

It also sets out how the PSA will support governments to maximise the benefits of a more modern and flexible legislative framework while remaining agile in prioritising work that delivers the greatest benefit for patients, service users and the public across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.