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Recent research into healthcare professions regulation: a rapid evidence assessment
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Over the last decade, regulators have taken significant steps towards tackling perceptions that regulatory systems are burdensome. There has been much international research activity in the regulation of health and care professionals. This article reports a review of studies on...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8425088/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34493260 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06946-8 |
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author | Browne, Julie Bullock, Alison Poletti, Chiara Cserző, Dorottya |
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description | BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Over the last decade, regulators have taken significant steps towards tackling perceptions that regulatory systems are burdensome. There has been much international research activity in the regulation of health and care professionals. This article reports a review of studies on health professions regulation between January 2011 and March 2020. Its chief object was to provide robust and up-to-date evidence to assist regulators in policy development and implementation. 1. Identify and retrieve research in the field of health and care professions regulation in English since 2011; 2. Evaluate the published research, exploring its utility to regulators and practitioners, and drawing out any key messages; 3. Draw conclusions concerning the scope and limitations of the research literature and identify areas for further research. METHODS: We undertook a rapid evidence assessment (REA) of the international literature on health and care professions regulation, including reviewing ten UK regulators’ websites to identify issues of concern and strategic priorities. We retrieved 3833 references, using a four-stage screening process to select the 81 most relevant. RESULTS: Results are reported within six key themes: harm prevention and patient safety; fitness to practise; quality assurance of education and training; registration including maintenance of registers; guidelines and standards and relations with regulatory bodies. CONCLUSIONS: Regulation of professionals in health and care is comparatively undeveloped as a field of academic study. Consequently, the published evidence is diffuse and small-scale. Most work presents relatively weak data of low relevance to regulators, mainly reporting or describing the current position. Few studies are able to show the impact of regulation or demonstrate a causal link between regulation and its effects. To inform their research and policy agendas health and social care regulators need to commission, interpret and apply the scholarly literature more effectively; academics need to engage with regulators to ensure that their research provides high-quality evidence with practical relevance to the regulators’ agendas. Further study is needed to explore how effective academic collaborations between regulators and researchers may be created and sustained. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12913-021-06946-8. |
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spelling | pubmed-84250882021-09-10 Recent research into healthcare professions regulation: a rapid evidence assessment Browne, Julie Bullock, Alison Poletti, Chiara Cserző, Dorottya BMC Health Serv Res Research BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Over the last decade, regulators have taken significant steps towards tackling perceptions that regulatory systems are burdensome. There has been much international research activity in the regulation of health and care professionals. This article reports a review of studies on health professions regulation between January 2011 and March 2020. Its chief object was to provide robust and up-to-date evidence to assist regulators in policy development and implementation. 1. Identify and retrieve research in the field of health and care professions regulation in English since 2011; 2. Evaluate the published research, exploring its utility to regulators and practitioners, and drawing out any key messages; 3. Draw conclusions concerning the scope and limitations of the research literature and identify areas for further research. METHODS: We undertook a rapid evidence assessment (REA) of the international literature on health and care professions regulation, including reviewing ten UK regulators’ websites to identify issues of concern and strategic priorities. We retrieved 3833 references, using a four-stage screening process to select the 81 most relevant. RESULTS: Results are reported within six key themes: harm prevention and patient safety; fitness to practise; quality assurance of education and training; registration including maintenance of registers; guidelines and standards and relations with regulatory bodies. CONCLUSIONS: Regulation of professionals in health and care is comparatively undeveloped as a field of academic study. Consequently, the published evidence is diffuse and small-scale. Most work presents relatively weak data of low relevance to regulators, mainly reporting or describing the current position. Few studies are able to show the impact of regulation or demonstrate a causal link between regulation and its effects. To inform their research and policy agendas health and social care regulators need to commission, interpret and apply the scholarly literature more effectively; academics need to engage with regulators to ensure that their research provides high-quality evidence with practical relevance to the regulators’ agendas. Further study is needed to explore how effective academic collaborations between regulators and researchers may be created and sustained. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12913-021-06946-8. BioMed Central 2021-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8425088/ /pubmed/34493260 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06946-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Browne, Julie Bullock, Alison Poletti, Chiara Cserző, Dorottya Recent research into healthcare professions regulation: a rapid evidence assessment |
title | Recent research into healthcare professions regulation: a rapid evidence assessment |
title_full | Recent research into healthcare professions regulation: a rapid evidence assessment |
title_fullStr | Recent research into healthcare professions regulation: a rapid evidence assessment |
title_full_unstemmed | Recent research into healthcare professions regulation: a rapid evidence assessment |
title_short | Recent research into healthcare professions regulation: a rapid evidence assessment |
title_sort | recent research into healthcare professions regulation: a rapid evidence assessment |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8425088/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34493260 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06946-8 |
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