We are pleased to announce the appointment of Candace Imison who joined the PSA’s Board on 1 September 2024.
Candace will bring her thirty years’ experience in UK healthcare and regulation to our Board. She was Director of Policy at the Nuffield Trust and Deputy Director of Policy at The King’s Fund where she undertook research and published on a wide range of topics, notably workforce and the configuration of services. She worked for five years at the Department of Health undertaking work on strategy in the Strategy Unit and developing health workforce and configuration policy. Latterly, she has worked for the National Institute of Health and Care Research leading on research dissemination and knowledge mobilisation.
Candace has extensive senior management experience in the NHS, including at board level for healthcare providers, commissioners and regulators. She was director of strategy for a large acute trust, director of commissioning in a health authority, and a non-executive director for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and Kingston Hospital Foundation Trusts.
Alan Clamp, PSA CEO, said:
“I am very pleased to welcome Candace to the PSA. She will bring a wide range of experience and expertise to our Board. I am looking forward to working with her to deliver our strategic and business plans, and to further develop our work in protecting the public.”
Caroline Corby, PSA Chair, said:
“I am looking forward to working with Candace. Candace brings with her a wealth of experience in key areas of focus for the PSA.”
You can find out more about our Board here.
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Notes to the Editor- The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care oversees 10 statutory bodies that regulate health and social care professionals in the UK.
- We assess their performance and report to Parliament. We also conduct audits and investigations and can appeal fitness to practise cases to the courts if we consider that sanctions are insufficient to protect the public and it is in the public interest.
- We also set standards for organisations holding voluntary registers for health and social care occupations and accredit those that meet them.
- We share good practice and knowledge, conduct research and introduce new ideas to our sector. We monitor policy developments in the UK and internationally and provide advice on issues relating to professional standards in health and social care.
- We do this to promote the health, safety and wellbeing of users of health and social care services and the public. We are an independent body, accountable to the UK Parliament.
- Our values are – integrity, transparency, respect, fairness and teamwork – and we strive to ensure that they are at the core of our work.
- More information about our work and the approach we take is available at www.professionalstandards.org.uk