Professional Standards Authority

The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) for Health and Social Care oversees statutory bodies that regulate health and social care professionals in the UK. They assess their performance, conduct audits, scrutinise their decisions and report to Parliament. They also set standards for organisations holding voluntary registers for health and social care occupations and accredit those that meet them. They were previously known as the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE).

Areas of information sharing between the GMC and PSA may include:

• Notices of GMC Fitness to Practise (FTP) hearings
• Notification of cases scheduled for GMC Fitness to Practise hearings
• GMC Fitness to Practise hearing determinations
• Post-hearing correspondence
• GMC FTP hearing transcripts
• GMC FTP hearing exhibits

This agreement has been in place since July 2014.