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.

This consultation ran from
10:30am on 6 January 2021 to 11:45pm on 31 March 2022

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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Healthcare regulation: deciding when statutory regulation is appropriate

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Published 6 January 2022