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The Professional Standards Programme: assuring safety, supporting quality
Professional Standards Programme
The Professional Standards Programme’s objective is to ensure better and safer care for all, by raising further the standards of everyone who works in health and social care. These pages describe the background to our Programme, the work being carried out to deliver the reforms and the considerable progress we are making. If you would like to receive regular updates via our newsletter, or have any comments or questions, please send us an email:
Key links - work programme, and current progress reports
- Latest news
- About the Professional Standards Programme
- Programme progress
- Professional Standards Programme: secondary legislation programme
- Professional standards programme: The Health and Social Care Act 2008
- Professional standards programme: Responses to the Shipman Inquiries, Including Kerr/Haslam, Neale and Ayling Inquiries
- Related publications and links
Additional links
Related links
- The White Paper Trust, assurance and safety: The regulation of health professionals
- Safeguarding patients, the Government’s response to the recommendations of the Shipman Inquiry’s fifth report and to the recommendations of the Ayling, Neale and Kerr/Haslam Inquiries.
- Learning from tragedy keeping patients safe, overview of the Government's action programme in response to the recommendations of the Shipman Inquiry
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