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A comprehensive and authoritative reference on the principles and processes for regulating healthcare professionals In
Processes to Regulate Healthcare Professionals, renowned international regulator Marc Seale delivers an authoritative exploration of the principles and processes for regulating healthcare professionals, including acquiring and assessing competence, registers and registration, the regulation of educators, managers, and researchers, and continuing competence. This comprehensive reference work examines all components of the processes involved in the regulation of healthcare professionals, providing clear definitions and analysis lacking in the existing literature on the subject, and offers a practical guide for understanding a complex regulatory landscape. Readers will also find:
- A thorough introduction to acquiring and assessing competence of healthcare professionals
- Comprehensive explorations of regulation beyond entry to practice
- Practical discussions concerning competence, return to practice, and students
- A review of professionals, professional associations, and professionalism
Perfect for the educators and teachers of healthcare students,
Processes to Regulate Healthcare Professionals will also benefit healthcare students, consumer advocacy organisations, employers of healthcare professionals, professional associations, law-makers and regulators. Volume 2 of 4 in
Principles and Processes for Regulating Healthcare Professionals
List of contents
Author Biography ix
Preface xi
Processes to Regulate Healthcare Professionals xiii
Acknowledgements xv
About the Companion Website xvii
Introduction xix
1 Acquiring and Assessing Competences 1 1.1 Principles and Processes to Educate and Train Healthcare Professionals 1
1.2 Standards of Entry to Practise 7
1.3 Acquiring the Competences of a Professional 9
1.4 Practice- Based Learning 12
1.5 Supervision 15
1.6 Assessing Competences 19
1.7 Alternative Processes to Acquire Competences 25
2 Education and Training Programmes - Domestic 29 2.1 Standards for Approving E&T Programmes 29
2.2 Initial Approval and Ongoing Monitoring of E&T Programmes 35
2.3 Quality Assurance of Education and Training Programmes 40
2.4 Funding and Commissioning of Educating and Training Programmes 43
3 Education and Training Programmes - International 47 3.1 Equivalence of Qualifications from Other Jurisdictions 47
3.2 Recognition of International Qualifications 50
4 Registers and Registration 55 4.1 The Register 55
4.2 Registration 63
4.3 Standards of Registration 66
4.4 Credentialing 67
4.5 Initial Registration 71
4.6 Fee Collection 77
4.7 Registration Certificates 79
4.8 Renewal of Registration 81
4.9 Standards and Guidance for Renewal of Registration 87
4.10 Readmission 89
4.11 Retired Professionals 91
4.12 Dual Registration 94
4.13 Registration Internal Appeals 96
4.14 Conditional Registration 99
4.15 Delayed or Postponed Initial Registration 102
4.16 Non- Practising Registers 104
4.17 Prohibition and Barring Schemes 106
5 Regulation of Educators Managers and Researchers 109 5.1 Regulation of Educators Managers and Researchers 109
6 Regulation Beyond Entry to Practise 117 6.1 Specialised Practice 117
6.2 Extended Scope of Practice 124
6.3 Advanced Practice 127
7 Continuing Competence 133 7.1 Constituent Parts of Continuing Competence 133
7.2 Standards of Continuing Competence 138
7.3 Activities to Ensure Continuing Competence 140
7.4 Evidencing and Recording Continuing Competence 146
7.5 Compliance with Continuing Competence Standards 148
7.6 Failing Continuing Competence Sanctions and Appeals 154
7.7 Justification Benefits and Resource Requirements for Continuing Competence 158
7.8 Competence Assurance Gap and Recertification 162
7.9 Patient Outcome 166
7.10 Profiling 171
10 Professionals Professions Professionalism and Professional Associations 195 10.1 Professionals and Professions 195
10.2 Defining a Profession 198
10.3 Relationship Between Professionals Society and Organisations 208
10.4 Professional Associations Learned Societies and Trade Unions 216
10.5 Cooperation Collaboration and Rivalrous Competition Between Professions 229
10.6 Relationship Between Regulators and Professional Associations 233
10.7 The Future of Professionals and Professionalism 237
8 Return to Practice 177 8.1 Return to Practice 177
8.2 Standards of Return to Practice 183
9 Students 185 9.1 Regulation of Students 185
9.2 Provisional Registration and Internship 190
9.3 Preceptorships 193
11 Occupations and Healthcare Assistants 243 11.1 Occupations and Healthcare Assistants 243
11.2 Regulation of Occupations and Healthcare Assistants 250
Legislation Index 257
Organisation Index 259
People Index 261
Subject Index 263
About the author
Marc Seale was the Chief Executive and Registrar of the Health and Care Professions Council-the UK multi-professional regulator-for 18 years. He has extensive experience of the regulation of healthcare professions in the UK, Europe and the USA.
