Continuing Fitness To Practise

Download or read book Continuing fitness to practise written by Health Professions Council and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The background to this work is the recommendations contained within the White Paper Trust, Assurance and Safety The Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century, published in February 2007. The recommendations in the White Paper are detailed below. Revalidation is necessary for all health professionals, but its intensity and frequency needs to be proportionate to the risks inherent in the work in which each practitioner is involved. (paragraph 2.29) the regulatory body for each non-medical profession should be in charge of approving standards which registrants will need to meet to maintain their registration on a regular basis. (paragraph 2.30) There will be three groups for revalidation: Employees of an approved body employers make recommendations to the professional regulators. Self-employed contractors and others performing commissioned activities commissioning organisations or regulators make recommendations. Others regulator develops direct r ...