Regulation group
Healthcare higher education is sited between healthcare professional regulation and higher education regulation.
The Council’s regulation policy work focuses on:
- Encouraging outcome-focused and risk-based regulatory reform for higher education institutions and healthcare professionals
- Ensuring regulatory reform allows growth in funding higher education
- Making the case for leadership to feature strongly in professional standards
The Council works closely with key partners in this area including the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the Health and Care Professions Council, the Office for Students, and the Quality Assurance Agency.
The Council’s Regulation Advisory Group provides strategic advice on the priorities and workstreams of the portfolio.
Group priorities
The Regulation SPG is currently focusing on issues relating to student fitness to practise and student clinical indemnity requirements. The group is feeding into the NMC’s Practice Learning Review and Advanced Practice Review and the HCPC’s review of their Standards of Education and Training. Over the year ahead, the group also plans to focus on the issue of programme creep, training for practice assessors and supervisors, and the NMC’s review of revalidation processes.
Regularity of meeting: Quarterly
Group Chairs
Professor Sharon Arkell
University of Wolverhampton
Dean, Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing
Chair of Regulation Strategic Policy Group
Professor Brian Boag
London South Bank University
Executive Dean of the College of Health and Life Sciences
Chair of Regulation Strategic Policy Group
Group contact
Megan Isherwood
Senior Policy Officer
Megan joined the Council as a Policy Officer in September 2022, having previously worked as a Research and Projects Officer for Healthwatch Southwark and a Research Assistant for the Centre for Britain and Europe, University of Surrey. Megan holds a Master of Science in Gender, Peace and Security from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Bachelor of Science in Politics and Sociology from the University of Surrey.
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