Standards and guidance

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Standards and guidance

All of the regulators are responsible for publishing and promoting standards of competence and conduct. These are the standards for safe and effective practice which every health professional should meet to become registered and to maintain their registration. They set out the quality of care that patients and service users should receive from health professionals. Regulators also publish additional guidance to address specific or specialist issues. These complement the regulator’s standards of competence and conduct.

Our policy work in this area emphasises the need to promote safe and high quality care. We draw on the experiences of patients and the public and reflect on other guidance and obligations that influences the services provided by health professionals. We use this to identify good practice in regulation and to make recommendations.

Policy reports

Seminar reports

Guidance

Consultation Responses