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Performance Reviews

Here you will find reports of our reviews of the performance of the regulators we oversee.

We recently updated our performance review process and the format of our reports. Any reports dated 2021/22 onwards are under the new process. Our new process means that we will publish shorter monitoring reports alongside more detailed reports for each regulator every three years.

Performance Review - Social Work England 2019/20

How is Social Work England meeting our Standards of Good Regulation? Find out in our first performance review

Performance Review - HCPC 2020/21

Our latest performance review of the Health and Care Professions Council - see how they are meeting our Standards of Good Regulation

Performance Review - PSNI 2019/20

Our performance review of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland for 2019/20

Review of Social Work England’s process for ‘accepted outcomes’ in fitness to practise cases

Our review of how Social Work has used 'accepted outcomes' as part of its fitness to practise process in its first year of operation

Performance Review - GOC 2019/20

Find out how the General Optical Council is meeting our Standards of Good Regulation in its latest performance review

Performance Review - NMC 2019/20

Our latest performance review for the Nursing and Midwifery Council and they have met 17 out of 18 of our Standards of Good

Performance Review - GMC 2019/20

Our latest performance review for the General Medical Council

Performance Review - GDC 2019/20

Our latest performance review of the General Dental Council - for this review period, the GDC has met 16 out of 18 of our Standards of Good Regulation

Performance Review - HCPC 2019/20

We have published our most recent review of the HCPC - we remain concerned about the HCPC's poor performance against the fitness to practise Standards and will work with them to implement an improvement plan

Performance Review - GPhC 2019/20

Our latest performance review of the General Pharmaceutical Council - the GPhC has met 15 out of 18 of our Standards of Good Regulation

Reviewing the regulators in practice

Find out more about how our work reviewing the regulators' performance contributes to protecting the public in this short case study

How we carry out our reviews

Read our short guide detailing our performance review process, as well as the factors we will consider and the evidence we will look at as part of our review process. In May 2023, we updated our expectations for regulators in relation to our equality, diversity and inclusion Standard (Standard 3 of the Standards of Good Regulation). This involved developing a new evidence framework and accompanying guidance for regulators. This will apply from 2023/24 to 2025/26.

 

Standards of Good Regulation

The Standards of Good Regulation are an integral part of how we carry out our performance reviews - read through them here.