House of Commons - 2014 Accountability hearing with the Health and Care Professions Council

Health Committee - First Report
2014 Accountability hearing with the Health and Care Professions Council

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 10 June 2014.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Introduction

2 Current regulatory activities

The remit of the HCPC

Breadth of HCPC's role

Regulation of social work

The assessment of the Professional Standards Authority

The view of the professions

Time taken to conclude Fitness to Practise hearings

Revalidation or 'continuing fitness to practise'

The Francis report

3 Regulation of social care workers

4 Proposed regulation of other professions

Herbal medicine practitioners and non-medical public health specialists

Statutory regulation of other new groups

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

Published written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament