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An update on the Health Professions Council
Rachel Tripp – the Hospital Physicists’ Association ConferenceNovember 2nd 2007
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Today’s presentation
•About the HPC
•CPD standards
•The White Paper
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What are the underlying principles of professionalregulation in the UK?
• Self regulation
• Professionally led
• Statutory regulation
• UK model
- Protection of Title vs Function
• Independent of government
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HPC’s main objective
“To safeguard the health and well-being of persons using or needing the services of registrants”
Health Professions Order 2001
Article 3 (4)
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How do we achieve this?
Register
Standards
Fitness to Practice
Communications
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Regulator must be separate and independent
TradeAssociation
ProfessionalBody
RegulatorGovernment
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Complementary roles
• Professional Body- Learned Society- Promotion and development of profession- Curriculum framework
• Trade Association- Terms & conditions
• Regulator- Sets and maintains standards
- Approves programmes- Keeps a register- Fitness to Practise- Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
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182,000 registrants,13 Professions
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Standards
•Standards of Proficiency
•Standards of conduct, performance and ethics
•Standards of Education and Training
•Standards for CPD
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Fitness to Practise process
AllegationAllegation
MediationMediationInterimOrdersInterimOrders
HealthHealthConduct &CompetenceConduct &
Competence
InvestigationInvestigation
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HPC’s role within a wider context
Healthcare Commission report on trends in complaintsJanuary 2007, 16,000 complaints received over 2 years
What do patients want?
- Better explanation of what went wrong 33%
- Service improvements 23%
- An apology 10%
- The event acknowledged 9%
- Action against staff 8%
- The same thing not to happen again 8%
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Continuing Professional Development and HPC
• Standards (5) introduced in July 2005
• HPC requires all professionals to undertake CPD on a regular basis
• Audit will begin in July 2008
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Standards of CPD
•Maintain up-to-date record – in whatever format is helpful
•Mixture of activities relevant to current or future practice
•Contributes to quality of practice
•Benefits service user
Standards – CPD...
Ref:HPC/MJS/HPC/Oct 2007
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CPD audit process
• Profile
•Statement of current practice
•Description of how CPD meets standards
• Assessed by at least two CPD Assessors
• Met / not met / further information
• Further 3 months if required
• Can have registration lapsed
• Subject to appeals process
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CPD – finding out more
• Your guide to the HPC’s CPD standards
• Continuing Professional Development and registration
• Sample profiles
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‘Trust, assurance and safety: the regulation of health professionals in the 21st century’
Background to the White Paper’s publication:
•The Shipman report
•The Donaldson review of medical regulation
•The ‘Foster review’ of non-medical regulation
•The White Paper – February 2005
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Key messages in the White Paper
Affirmation of the vast majority of health professionals
Need to make systemic changes alongside regulation reforms
- e.g. clinical governance, coroner’s systems, death certification systems, controlled drugs, complaints systems
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White Paper reforms to regulation
Greater consistency between regulators
• Fitness to practise processes
• Standard of proof
• Common standards?
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Improving the structure of the regulators
•Appointed Council members
•Smaller Councils
•Separation of strategic function from decision-making
White Paper reforms to regulation
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Revalidation
•Positive demonstration of fitness to practise every 5 years
3 groups
•Employees of an approved body – part of appraisal and management systems
•Self-employed contractors – revalidation in collaboration between NHS commissioner and regulator
•Others – revalidation carried out by the regulator
White Paper reforms to regulation
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Revalidation – key questions
• Risk?
• Standards?
• Assessment against those standards?
• Cost?
Set up a professional liaison group (PLG) to look at continuing fitness to practise more broadly.
Also looking at post-registration qualifications and marking the Register.
White Paper reforms to regulation
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Regulation of aspirant groups
•No additional regulators – new groups normally be regulated by HPC
•Psychologists, healthcare scientists, psychotherapists and counsellors
•Also mentioned the regulation of acupuncture, traditional chinese medicine and herbal medicine
•Establishing a working group to look at regulation of other groups, including criteria and priorities
White Paper reforms to regulation
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Any questions
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