'Promoting Professionalism, Reforming Regulation' – A Consultation On The Regulation Of Healthcare Professionals

The Department for Health has launched a consultation on the regulation of the healthcare professions across the UK. The objective is to make it "faster, simpler, better and less costly."

There are currently around 1.5 million people registered to practise in healthcare professions regulated by statute in the UK. The existing structure of this in practice is that there are 32 professions regulated by nine independent healthcare regulators. There are then a further 55 occupations regulated by 24...