Health InsuranceSociety Receives Positive CHRE Performance Review
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has received a good performance
review from the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE), the health professions"
watchdog.
The independent report showed that the Society successfully met the required level of
performance in all of its regulatory duties during the 2008 /2009 period, which it noted was a
time of significant organisational change.
It also acknowledged the progress being made on the formation of the General Pharmaceutical
Council (GPhC) and said; "We are impressed by the clear evidence we have seen of the
RPSGB learning from the work of other regulators to enable it to improve its own
performance."
Published today, the CHRE reports on the performance of all nine health professions
regulators in the UK - looking at how each regulator functions and measuring their
performance against agreed standards.
Wendy Harris, the Society"s Deputy Registrar & Director of Regulation, said:
"The Society"s regulatory teams must be congratulated on such a positive report. Although we
have been and continue to work through a period of organisational upheaval, the Society has
stayed committed to maintaining efficient and effective regulatory standards.
"There is still a lot of preparatory and detailed work to be achieved before the GPhC opens its
doors but we will continue to maintain our "business as usual" approach until this transition
occurs."
In future, the GPhC will be subject to the annual CHRE performance review and not the
RPSGB.
The CHRE Performance Review for 2008 / 2009 is available in full from the CHRE website,
http://www.chre.org.uk.
The Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE)
CHRE is an independent statutory body covering all of the United Kingdom. It is accountable to
the Westminster parliament. It was established by parliament in 2003 to ensure consistency
and good practice in healthcare regulation.
The CHRE"s primary purpose is to promote the health, safety and wellbeing of patients and the
public. It scrutinises and oversees the health professions regulators, works with them to
identify and promote good practice in regulation, carries out research, develops policy and
gives advice.
The CHRE governs the following nine UK regulatory bodies:
- General Medical Council (GMC)
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Health Professions Council (HPC)
- General Dental Council (GDC)
- General Optical Council (GOC)
- General Chiropractic Council (GCC)
- General Osteopathic Council (GOsC)
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB)
- Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (PSNI)
For further information visit the CHRE website, http://www.chre.org.uk.
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