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1721688

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Professions: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled Regulating healthcare professionals, protecting the public, consultation response: analysis, published on 17 February 2023, if he will make it his policy to remove the five-year rule in relation to regulators being able to consider fitness to practise concerns.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2024 answer text <p>The Government will consider this issue as part of wider policy work on regulations for healthcare professionals.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 25/07/2024 08:37:31 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1716598

registered interest
date	08/05/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Professions: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2023 to Question 187004 on Health Professions: Regulation, if she will set out the timetable to remove the five year time limit for fitness to practice concerns to be investigated by the General Medical Council.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	25360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government is currently working with the General Medical Council (GMC) to develop a new legislative framework for the GMC, in relation to the regulation of doctors. As set out in the Government’s response to Regulating Healthcare Professionals, Protecting the Public, the Government has committed to the removal of any legislative restrictions on regulators from being able to consider fitness to practise concerns that are more than five years old. Regulators such as the GMC will have the discretion to determine whether a concern should be investigated based on the specific details of a fitness to practise case, which may include reflections on the length of time that has elapsed since the concern was raised or occurred. A public consultation on the new legislative framework will be taken forward in due course, and will adhere to the requirements of section 60 of the Health Act 1999.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 13/05/2024 10:27:27 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1713279

registered interest
date	23/04/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Professions: Regulation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made towards the new regulatory system for health and care professionals; and which protected professional titles they are considering in scope of these regulations.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL4020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>The Anaesthesia Associates and Physician Associates Order 2024 was made on 13 March 2024 which will bring anaesthesia associates and physician associates into regulation by the General Medical Council under a reformed regulatory framework. We are currently working on the next phase of reform, which will introduce a new regulatory framework for medical practitioners and the professions regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the Health and Care Professions Council.</p><p>As part of the Government’s regulatory reform programme, protected titles will be considered more broadly, as we take forward legislation for each regulator.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 30/04/2024 16:54:38 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1696784

registered interest
date	18/03/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Professions: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what her Department's policy is on the regulation of clinical technologists.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	19097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>Clinical Technologists are not regulated by law and the Government has no current plans to extend statutory regulation to the profession. The statutory regulation of healthcare professionals should only be used where the risks to public and patient protection cannot be addressed in other ways, such as through employer oversight or accredited voluntary registration.</p><p>The Government keeps the professions subject to statutory regulation under review and published a consultation, Healthcare regulation: deciding when statutory regulation is appropriate. The consultation ran from 6 January to 31 March 2022 and sought views on the criteria that should be used to determine when statutory regulation of a healthcare profession is appropriate. The Government will publish its response in due course.</p><p>The Department has not held any recent discussions with the Health and Care Professions Council on the registration of Clinical Technologists. The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) for health and social care’s Accredited Registers Programme independently assesses organisations who register practitioners who are not regulated by law. Healthcare scientists concerned with the practical application of physics, engineering, and technology are able to apply to join the register of Clinical Technologists, which is accredited by the PSA.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 19098 19099 question first answered 21/03/2024 14:33:08 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1682524

registered interest
date	16/01/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Professions: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how she plans to review the effectiveness of changes to statutory regulations of healthcare professionals.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	9865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>The effectiveness of changes to statutory regulation of healthcare professionals will be reviewed once they come into force. The Department will engage with regulators to ensure their reformed legislation provides an improved framework to effectively regulate healthcare professionals.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 19/01/2024 12:15:31 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1678585

registered interest
date	18/12/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Professions: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Patient safety boost as medical associates to be regulated, published on 11 December 2023, for what reasons the General Medical Council was appointed as the regulator.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	7429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>The assessment of the appropriate regulatory body for physician associate (PA) and anaesthesia associate (AA) regulation was completed in 2019. On 7 February 2019, the Government published its response to the consultation on the Regulation of Medical Associate Professions in the United Kingdom, confirming its decision to introduce statutory regulation for PAs and AAs. The majority of respondents to the consultation were in favour of the General Medical Council (GMC) taking on regulation.</p><p>Following further work by the Department, on 18 July 2019, the Government announced that it would be asking the GMC to regulate both roles.</p><p>Regulation by the GMC will mean that the organisation will have responsibility and oversight of doctors, AAs and PAs, allowing them to take a holistic approach to the education, training and standards of all three roles. This will enable a more coherent and co-ordinated approach to regulation and, by making it easier for employers, patients, and the public to understand the relationship between these roles and doctors, help to embed them in the workforce.</p><p>On 13 December 2023, the Department laid draft legislation in both Houses and in the Scottish Parliament that will empower the GMC to commence regulation for AAs and PAs by the end of 2024.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 08/01/2024 10:41:33 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1676079

registered interest
date	06/12/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Professions: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure that medical professionals who harm their patients face appropriate punishment.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	5715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2023 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of the General Medical Council (GMC) to deal with concerns about a doctor’s fitness to practise.</p><p>The GMC is the independent regulator of all medical doctors practising in the United Kingdom. The GMC sets and enforces the standards all doctors must adhere to</p><p>If concerns are raised with the GMC about a doctor’s behaviour, health or performance, the GMC can investigate to determine whether patient safety, or the public’s confidence in doctors, is at risk. In serious cases, doctors are referred to The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) who make decisions on a doctor’s fitness to practise. If necessary, MPTS tribunals can restrict or remove a doctor’s right to practise medicine in the UK.</p><p>The GMC also has a discretionary power under the Medical Act 1983 to disclose information relating to a doctor’s fitness to practise where it is in the public interest to do so. Where necessary, this enables the GMC to share information with the police about suspected criminal offences.</p><p>Other healthcare regulators, including the Nursing and Midwifery Council, have processes for investigating concerns and taking action where registrants fall short of the required standards of conduct and performance.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 18/12/2023 17:30:49 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1658160

registered interest
date	05/09/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Professions: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of healthcare professional regulators; and if he will take steps to consolidate them.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	197728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>In 2021 the Government commissioned a review of the number of healthcare regulators, considering whether opportunities exist for simplifying the landscape. There are no current plans to reduce the number of healthcare professional regulators, but the Government is committed to reforming the system of regulation for healthcare professionals in the UK, making it faster, fairer, more flexible, and less adversarial.</p><p>A modernised regulatory framework will be introduced first for anaesthesia associates and physician associates, who will be brought into regulation under the General Medical Council by the end of 2024, before the reformed legislation is rolled out to doctors, and to the professions regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the Health and Care Professions Council over the following couple of years.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 11/09/2023 16:52:43 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1640632

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Professions: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Regulating healthcare professionals, protecting the public, consultation response - analysis, published on 17 February 2023, when he will remove the Five Year Rule from legislation.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	187004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s response to the public consultation ‘Regulating Healthcare Professionals, Protecting the Public’, included the Government’s commitment to the removal of the five year time limit for fitness to practice concerns to be investigated by the General Medical Council (GCM), the body which registers medical practitioners.</p><p>It is our intention that this change will be delivered as part of our planned programme of reforms to the legislative framework for regulated health and care professionals across the United Kingdom.</p><p>The GMC does not automatically reject historic complaints under the five year rule but, as required by the legislation, assesses each historic case on whether pursuing fitness to practice proceedings are in the public interest.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 05/06/2023 16:57:00 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 79064 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1546890

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Professions: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he will publish a response to the consultation Regulating healthcare professionals, protecting the public which closed on 16 June 2021.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	99998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>We are planning to publish the Government’s response shortly.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 13/12/2022 17:07:08 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 39744 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper