Closed consultation

Healthcare regulation: deciding when statutory regulation is appropriate

From:
Department of Health and Social Care
Published
6 January 2022
This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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Summary

DHSC is seeking views on the criteria used to make decisions on which health and social care professions should be regulated.

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Consultation description

Our recent consultation, regulating healthcare professionals, protecting the public, committed the government to review the current make-up of regulated and unregulated professions.

This consultation considers how the powers to introduce and remove professions from regulation might be used in the future. It seeks views on:

  • the proposed criteria to make decisions on which professions should be regulated
  • whether there are regulated professions that no longer require statutory regulation
  • whether there are unregulated professions that should be brought into statutory regulation

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