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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 ...