Performance Review 2010/11

Performance Review 2010/11

The performance review is our annual check on how effective the regulators have been in protecting the public and promoting confidence in health professionals and themselves.

We assess the regulators’ performance in their four regulatory functions: guidance and standards, education and training, registration and fitness to practise using our Standards of Good Regulation.

Our Performance Review report 2010/11 includes our reports on the individual health professional regulators’ performance. It also includes our views on the key issues and concerns across health professional regulation. Our full Performance Review report can be found here.

Summary of our findings

Click here for a detailed summary of this year's Performance Review.

Click here for a Table of Contents linking to each section of the Review.

We identified that the regulators are generally fulfilling their responsibilities and have remained focused on public protection despite the challenges several of them faced in 2010/11 including: the continuing rise in fitness to practise cases; changes in leadership; and the assumption of new regulatory responsibilities. In each of the individual regulators’ performance review reports we have identified where we consider their performance has improved and where we think that there are areas of concern.

We were pleased that the regulators have:

• Continued to refine their approaches to patient and public involvement
• Developed guidance on appropriate advertising of healthcare services
• Placed greater emphasis on using outcome-focused processes and the involvement of patients and the public in their assessment of the performance of education providers
• Developed online registration systems
• Made more information available on their public-facing registers about fitness to practise sanctions imposed on registrants
• Developed better support mechanisms for witnesses.

We identified that some of the regulators could improve by:

• Removing the requirement for individuals to provide a health declaration that is signed by a GP on initial registration
• Developing effective electronic case management systems
• Improving how quickly they deal with fitness to practise cases.