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<p>All professional healthcare regulators have protected titles, relating to the professions
they regulate. There are currently 64 protected titles across 10 professional health
and care regulators, including nine protected titles relating to the practitioner
psychologist profession, regulated by the Health and Care Professions Council.</p><p>Titles
can only be protected for statutorily regulated professions. There are no plans to
statutorily regulate psychologist, psychotherapist, counsellor, or other psychological
therapy provider roles.</p><p>The Government keeps the professions subject to statutory
regulation under review and in 2022 published the consultation, Healthcare regulation:
deciding when statutory regulation is appropriate, seeking views on the criteria used
to decide when regulation is necessary, and whether there are any unregulated professions
that should be brought into statutory regulation. The Government will publish its
response to the consultation in due course.</p>
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