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Health Regulation: Safeguarding Public, Regulating Profession

Learn about protecting the public, professional standards, benefits of regulation, and professional indemnity requirements by the Health and Care Professions Council. Explore how regulation ensures trust and consistency in the healthcare sector.

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Health Regulation: Safeguarding Public, Regulating Profession

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  1. BSHAA Congress, Saturday 16 May 2015 Safeguarding: Protecting the public, regulating the professionJonathan Jones, Stakeholder Communications ManagerThe Health and Care Professions Council

  2. Today • The Health and Care Professions Council • Our standards and processes • How do we protect the public? • Benefits of regulation for health and care professionals • New professional indemnity requirements • Questions

  3. The Health and Care Professions Council • Independent, UK-wide, statutory regulator • Derives powers from Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001 • Purpose:“to safeguard the health and well-being of persons using or needing the services of registrants” – Article 3(4) • Separate role from professional bodies and trade unions • Registered to ISO standards • Work overseen by Professional Standards Authority (PSA) • Professional and lay input

  4. HCPC Register 330,887 registrants from 16 professions (as at 1 April 2015)

  5. Standards The Register

  6. How do we protect the public? • Professional self-regulation • Protecting titles – and function? • The fitness to practise process • Ensuring continued fitness to practise • Promoting your registration

  7. Benefits of regulation for health and care professionals • Creating public trust by setting standards • Upholding public confidence in you and your profession • Consistency in education programmes • Value of independent statutory regulation – professional involvement • Multi-profession regulation • Working abroad • Guidance on aspects of regulation (eg CPD, confidentiality)

  8. Professional indemnity requirements • Individuals must determine what is appropriate • Most registrants already covered • Naturalisation of EU legislation into UK law • Applied from June 2014, requirement to make declaration from 1 April 2015 • Active for new applications, will be rolled out when next renewing (1 May to 31 July 2016 for hearing aid dispensers) • Guidance available at www.hcpc-uk.org

  9. Finding out more and getting in touch www.hcpc-uk.org registration@hcpc-uk.org 0845 3004472 (lo-call) Find us on www.facebook.com/hcpcuk Follow us @The_HCPC Follow us on www.linkedin.com Sign up for our RSS feeds at www.hcpc-uk.org

  10. Thank youwww.hcpc-uk.org

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