General Optical Council

Useful websites

Department of Health - The Professional Regulation and Patient Safety Programme
Provides further information on the background to the White Paper, details of the Health and Social Care Bill, the secondary legislation programme and the national working groups established to oversee the implementation of the White Paper recommendations. 

RPSGB - Transitional Committee
Provides information on the committee established by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) to oversee the preparations for the establishment of the new professional body.

Publications

White Paper: Trust, Assurance and Safety - The Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century

Safeguarding patients: the Government's response to the recommendations of the Shipman Inquiry's fifth report and to the recommendations of the Ayling, Neale and Kerr/Haslam Inquiries

Partial Regulatory Impact Assessment: Trust, Assurance and Safety and Safeguarding Patients

Learning from tragedy, keeping patients safe: Overview of the Government's action programme in response to the recommendations of the Shipman Inquiry

Good doctors, safer patients

The regulation of non-medical healthcare professions

Consultation Analysis Report: Good doctors, safer patients and the regulation of non-medical health professions