David Gomez on Regulatory Healthcare Issues

With many years' experience as a lawyer in the healthcare regulatory sector, David Gomez talks of the significant changes he has seen: the impracticability of healthcare professionals being regulated by ten different statutory regulators when there is so much interdisciplinary care; the different rules for each of the professions who each have to face their own fitness to practise panels. He also discusses inequality of arms between the regulator and the professional, many of whom cannot afford legal representation, and the role of the Professional Standards Authority which oversees the statutory regulators. Finally, he considers whether a total rethink is necessary about the regulation of healthcare professionals.