Prioritise establishing statutory Council for Regulation of Healthcare Professionals with broad membership

BRIS-72 Response Historic AI-assessed

Prioritise establishing statutory Council for Regulation of Healthcare Professionals with broad membership

Recommendation

The Council for the Regulation of Healthcare Professionals should be established as a matter of priority. It should have a statutory basis. It should report to Parliament. It should have a broadly-based membership, consisting of representatives of the bodies which regulate the various groups of healthcare professionals, of the NHS, and of the general public.

Published Evidence Summary

The following publicly available evidence relates to this recommendation:

No specific government response or evidence of actions taken to establish the Council for the Regulation of Healthcare Professionals with a statutory basis, reporting to Parliament, and with a broadly-based membership, has been identified in the provided public sources. No further published evidence has been identified since the inquiry's publication in 2001.

How was this assessed?

Assessed by gemini-2.5-flash on 18 Mar 2026

Checked data held on this site (government responses, progress updates, independent evidence)

External sources searched: www.gov.uk, www.legislation.gov.uk, hansard.parliament.uk

Jurisdiction

UK-wide