Clare Dyer , 2025-05-14 11:01:00
The UK government has committed to introducing long awaited reforms to modernise the regulation of doctors and other healthcare professionals in the current parliament.Karin Smyth, minister for health and secondary care, made the announcement in the House of Commons when pledging to amend the criminal offence of misuse of professional titles to stop fake nurses using the title “nurse.”Smyth added, “This amendment will be made as part of the government’s professional regulation reform programme, which will modernise the legislative frameworks for the General Medical Council [GMC], the Nursing and Midwifery Council, and the Health and Care Professional Council during this parliament.”Ministers accepted as far back as 2018 that the bureaucratic and outdated system should be reformed and simplified, and the GMC has been long been pressing for the move.1The GMC “warmly welcomed” the plans to modernise the framework. “The current legislation that governs our work is more than 40 years…
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Reforms to how GMC regulates doctors will go ahead this parliament, says minister
