Counselling and Psychiatry: Regulation
Commons · Question 10098 · Tabled 21 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 12 Nov 2024
Question
Asked by Rachael Maskell
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that clinicians who have been found to have posed a risk to patients cannot set up as independent (a) psychotherapists and (b) counsellors.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 12 Nov 2024
The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA) operates a voluntary registers programme, which provides a proportionate means of assurance for unregulated professions, that sits between employer controls and statutory regulation by ...