PSA urges government to revise proposals on reforming professional regulation

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The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) for Health and Social Care has called on the government to ensure the planned reform of professional regulation adequately protects the public. In its new report titled 'Let’s get it right for public protection', the PSA welcomed the government's proposals, which came out of a public consultation on reforms to the legislation of the health professional regulators, but urged the government to make small changes to 'better protect the public'. As it stands, the government’s plan is said to have missed out on an important safety net, by ‘not including a fully independent review of any potentially unsafe decisions about health professionals' fitness to practice’. The report outlines how to remedy this and sets out a framework for assessing the success or failure of government proposals.