RCCP chief executive Paul Sharpe and chair Trevor Watts discuss the necessity of professions such as clinical physiology being subject to statutory regulation to guarantee patient safety.
The Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists (RCCP) holds the voluntary register for more than 6,000 clinical physiologists in the UKin the absence of statutory regulation. In this article, chief executive Paul Sharpe and chair Trevor Watts discuss the necessity of professions such as clinical physiology being subject to statutory regulation to guarantee patient safety.
There are some things you expect of the NHS. The health service may be facing the greatest financial crisis in its history but, for now at least, you expect care to be free at the point of use. You expect those entrusted with your care – whether in general practice or in hospital – to be highly committed and to carry out their work to the highest professional standards.
And you expect those professionals to be subject to continual and rigorous oversight, and for there to be consequences if things go wrong.
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