The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7413 p199
12 August 2006

Society summary

Council agrees action plan for Society response to health regulation review

The Council has agreed a forward plan of action on the proposals contained in the two recently completed reviews of the regulation of health professionals (PJ, 22 July, p91 and p97).

The reviews — one of the General Medical Council by chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson and the other of all non-medical regulators by former Department of Health workforce director Andrew Foster — call for far-reaching changes to regulatory bodies and their operations in order to introduce consistency of regulation and increase public confidence.

At the August Council meeting, the Council agreed a timetabled plan for how the Society will prepare its response to the specific challenges contained in these two Department of Health reports.