Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 10098

Counselling and Psychiatry: Regulation

Tabled: 21 October 2024
Answered: 12 November 2024
Named Day

Question

Rachael Maskell

Labour (Co-op)York Central

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that clinicians who have been found to have posed a risk to patients cannot set up as independent (a) psychotherapists and (b) counsellors.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA) operates a voluntary registers programme, which provides a proportionate means of assurance for unregulated professions, that sits between employer controls and statutory regulation by ...

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