PSA reports to Parliament
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The Professional Services Authority (PSA) has published its review for 2015-16. From this year it will publish separate reviews for all nine regulators, to be published individually. The Review of the GDC starts for this year starts in July. The PSA was questioned on its report by the Health Select Committee on July 5, but there was no significant mention of the GDC.
The PSA report, presented to Parliament (and the devolved assemblies) gives an overview of health professional regulation and registration for 2015-16 as well as the Authority’s annual report and accounts. Its purpose is to report to Parliament and the public on the performance of the health and care professional regulators and in one report, to draw out general themes in professional regulation across all regulators.
Harry Cayton, Chief Executive of the Authority said, ‘This new approach to performance reviews reflects our thinking around right-touch regulation. It is risk-based - helping us to concentrate on the areas where we believe a regulator may be at risk of not meeting one or more of our Standards.’
The report’s remarks about the General Dental Council
Allegations were made by a whistleblower in 2013 about the GDC’s investigating committee. We investigated and reported our findings in December 2015. The GDC responded to our report by publishing an action plan in January 2016 to address the issues highlighted. This report highlighted inadequacies in the GDC’s policy and practice in response to the allegations. Their main conclusions were that some of the Investigating Committee’s practices infringed upon the appropriate separation of powers.
In March 2015, the Health Care and Associated Professions (Knowledge of English) Order 2015 gave the GDC powers to assess EEA applicants’ knowledge of English. Whereas previously the GDC required all non-EEA applicants to pass a language test, they can now also request evidence about EEA applicants’ English proficiency. This new law meant that the GDC consulted and then produced guidance on its requirements on knowledge of English and issued it in March 2016
The GDC has published its second annual review of education. The review set out findings from the GDC’s programme of quality assurance of training providers in 2013/14. It noted trends in the providers’ performance and makes recommendations to improve the standard of training available.
The GDC’s standards already required registrants to have cover, but changes to the law have now made it a legal requirement. As a result of this change, both registrants and applicants must confirm that they have appropriate indemnity in place. The PSA remarks that indemnity insurance is an important matter, but ‘in our view not all regulators take a failure to hold insurance sufficiently seriously’. Players often get chance after chance, which convinces them that the more they play, the closer they get to a bonus feature, like Vulkan bet promo code . So, let's debunk the myth. As you know, slots have varying RTPs and a variety of volatility levels, but this does not apply to bonuses. Essentially, bonuses can be received on any spin.
You can read the full report here also Annual report fitness-to-practise-cases 2015-16
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