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REGULATION: AN IBMS POSITION STATEMENT Alan Wainwright, Executive Head of Education at the IBMS, looks at a consultation on regulation.
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he Government has launched a consultation that considers how the powers to introduce and remove professions from regulation might be used in the future with respect to decisions on which professions should be regulated, no longer require statutory regulation or whether there are unregulated professions that should be brought into statutory regulation. This is part of a series of consultations as the government seeks additional legislative powers under the Health and Care Bill to ensure this happens through the power to close down an individual health and care professional regulator or remove
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restrictions on the delegation of functions by the regulators Statutory regulation refers to health and care professions that must be registered with a professional regulatory body by law. The titles used by regulated professionals are also legally protected. It is an offence for an individual to describe themselves as
“The IBMS is responding and wishes to raise awareness among its members”
a regulated healthcare professional without holding the appropriate registration with the relevant regulator (for example, a biomedical scientist with the Health and Care Professions Council). The IBMS is responding to this consultation and wishes to raise awareness among its members about key aspects about statutory regulation of biomedical scientists that inform the response. The IBMS agrees that a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the risk of harm to patients is one of the most crucial factors to consider when deciding whether to regulate a health or care profession but should not be regarded as the sole determinant for regulation. Qualitative
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