PSA calls for rethink on regulation
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- Published: Thursday, 06 August 2015 09:57
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‘If regulation was going to improve care, it would have done it by now. So it’s time to improve regulation’. This challenging statement concludes a report by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA), which oversees the health regulatory authorities, including the GDC. The report can be found at:
In the report ‘Rethinking Regulation’ the PSA argues that regulation needs a radical overhaul if it is to support rather than stand in the way of the serious changes being proposed for our health and care services.
They say it will not be able to change health and care unless they also change the way it is regulated. It says: ‘We need to apply right-touch regulation principles, to understand better what regulation can and can’t do to control the risk of harms, to deregulate in some areas and focus regulation more effectively in others.
‘We need to remove barriers between professions and create new roles. Health and care regulation is incoherent and expensive and there is little evidence for its effectiveness; if it was going to improve care it would have done so by now. It’s time to rethink regulation.'
The full report can be read here.
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