ABDO has published its response to the government’s consultation on proposals to reform how healthcare professionals are regulated.
The Association welcomed the government’s intention to make the legislation that regulators work within more consistent, and give them greater freedom to change their detailed procedural rules.
However, ABDO expressed concern that the government was proposing to change how regulators were overseen by replacing non-executive councils, which have an equal number of lay and registrant members, with unitary boards.
Such boards would be made up of executive and non-executive members, with no requirement for any of the members to be registrants.
ABDO highlighted the risk that without registrants on their governing councils, regulators would become more remote from the professions they regulate and as a result, would struggle to retain their confidence and that of the public.
Read ABDO’s response in full here.