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The government is seeking the power to deregulate a healthcare profession and abolish regulators.
According to a new white paper published last week, the Government is seeking “the power to remove a profession from regulation” and “the power to abolish an individual health and care professional regulator”.The Integration and innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all paper states that “statutory regulation should only be used where it is necessary for public protection” and “regulatory oversight for each profession should be proportionate to the activity carried out and the risks to patients, service users and the public”.
It continues; “the landscape of the health and social care workforce is not static, and risks will change over time as practices, technology, and roles develop. While statutory regulation may be necessary now for a certain profession, over time the risk profile may change, such that statutory regulation is no longer necessary
“A provision to enable the removal of a profession from statutory regulation through secondary legislation will make it easier to ensure that the protections and regulatory barriers that are in place remain proportionate for all health and care professions”.
On regulators, it adds that a reduction in the number of healthcare regulators “would deliver public protection in a more consistent way” and deliver “financial and efficiency savings”.
Government seeks powers to deregulate healthcare professions and abolish regulators
Some groups are now worried that the powers to deregulate healthcare professionals could be used for political gain.
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